LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST (Act II. Scene 1.)

"It is odd that Shakspeare should make Dumain inquire after Rosaline, who was the mistress of Biron, and neglect Katharine, who was his own. Biron behaves in the same manner.—Perhaps *all* the ladies wore masks.—Steevens. "They certainly did."—Malone. "And what if they did?"—Query. In what possible way can the circumstance of the ladies *wearing masks* lessen the inconsistency pointed out by Steevens? Rosaline has been immediately singled out by her former admirer— "Did I not dance with you in Brabant once?" —a circumstance quite inconsistent with uncertain identity afterwards. But if the gent…