Rosamund : Rosamond Clifford (c. 1140c. 1176), a mistress of Henry II of England, who was known as “Fair Rosamond”. The best-known stories tell how Queen Eleanor murdered Rosamond by poison, stabbing, or beheading.
... continuous drain was the tax put upon him by official drudgery. Under the morbid and wasteful conditions of middle-class life in India genius, when not born in the purple, has put before it, like the fair Rosamund of Norman romance, a choice between two methods of suicide, the Services and the Law. It must either take the poisoned bowl or the dagger. And in this limited circle of professions the Educational ...
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