Rogel of Greece (The Exploits and Adventures of), part of the series called Le Roman des Romans, pertaining to “Am´adis of Gaul.” This part was added by Feliciano de Silva.
Roger, the cook who “cowde roste, sethe, broille, and frie, make mortreux, and wel bake a pye.”—Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (1388).
Roger (Sir), curate to “The Scornful Lady” (no name given).—Beaumont and Fletcher, The Scornful Lady (1616).
Roger Armstrong, clerical lover of Faith Gartney, and her preferred suitor.—A. D. T. Whitney, Faith Gartney’s Girlhood.
Roger Bontemps, the personation of contentment with his station in life, and of the buoyancy of good hope. “There’s a good time coming, John.”
Vous pauvres, pleins d’enviè;
Vous rich, désireux;
Vous dont le char dévie
Après un cours heureux;
Vous qui perdrez peut-être
Des titres éclatans;
Eh! gai! prenez pour maitre
Le gros Roger Bontemps.
Béranger (1780-1856).
Ye poor, with envy goaded;
Ye rich, for more who long;
Ye who by fortune loaded
Find all things going wrong;
Ye who by some disaster
See all your cables break;
From henceforth, for your master
Sleek Roger Bontemps take.
Roger Chillingworth, deformed husband of Hester Prynne. He returns to Boston from a long sojourn with the Indians, and sees his wife in the pillory with a baby—not his—in her arms. From that instant he sets himself to work to discover the name of her seducer, and, suspecting Arthur Dimmesdale, attaches himself to the oft-ailing clergyman as his medical attendant. He it is who first suspects the existence of the cancer that is devouring the young clergyman’s life, and when the horrible thing is revealed, kneels by the dying man with the bitter whisper, “Thou hast escaped me!”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850).
Roger de Coverley (Sir), an hypothetical baronet of Coverley or Cowley, near Oxford.—Addison, The Spectator (1711, 1712, 1714).
*** The prototype of this famous character was Sir John Pakington, seventh baronet of the line.