One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.
ROMEO ON ROSALINE.
_Romeo and Juliet_, Act I, Scene ii.
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria! what a deal of brine
Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
_Romeo and Juliet_, Act II, Scene ii.
_Letter from Rosaline to her friend Olivia_