Roge´ro, brother of Marphi´sa; brought up by Atlantês, a magician. He married Brad´amant, the niece of Charlemagne. Rogero was converted to Christianity, and was baptized. His marriage with Bradamant and his election to the crown of Bulgaria concludes the poem.—Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).
Who more brave than Rodomont? who more courteous than Rogero?—Cervantês, Don Quixote, I. i. (1605).
Rogero, son of Roberto Guiscardo, the Norman. Slain by Tisaphernês.—Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, xx. (1575).
Rogero (3 syl.), a gentleman of Sicilia.—Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale (1604).
*** This is one of those characters which appear in the dramatis personæ, but are never introduced in the play. Rogero not only does not utter a word—he does not even enter the stage all through the drama. In the Globe edition his name is omitted. (See Violenta.)
Rogers (Mr.), illiterate, tender-hearted, great-souled old father of Louisiana. When she begs his pardon for having been ashamed of, and having disowned him, he tells her, “It’s you as should be a-forgivin’ me ... I hadn’t done ye no sort o’ justice in the world, an’ never could.”—Frances Hodgson Burnett, Louisiana (1880).
Roget, the pastoral name of George Wither in the four “eglogues” called The Shepheards Hunting (1615). The first and last “eglogues” are dialogues between Roget and Willy, his young friend; in the second pastoral Cuddy is introduced, and in the third Alexis makes a fourth character. The subject of the first three is the reason of Roget’s imprisonment, which, he says, is a hunt that gave great offence. This hunt is in reality a satire called Abuses Stript and Whipt. The fourth pastoral has for its subject Roget’s love of poetry.
*** “Willy” is his friend, William Browne, of the Inner Temple (two years his junior), author of Britannia’s Pastorals.
Roi Panade (“king of slops”), Louis XVIII. (1755, 1814-1824).
Roister Doister (Ralph), a vain, thoughtless, blustering fellow, in pursuit of Custance, a rich widow, but baffled in his endeavor.—Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister (the first English comedy, 1534).