Angelica, in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516), is the same lady, who marries Medoro, a young Moore, and returns to Cathay, where Medoro succeeds to the crown.  As for Orlando, he is driven mad by jealousy and pride.

  The fairest of her sex, Angelica,
  ...Sought by many prowest knights,
  Both painim and the peers of Charlemagne.

Milton, Paradise Regained, iii. (1671).

Angelica (The Princess), called “The Lady of the Golden Tower.”  The loves of Parisme’nos and Angelica form an important feature of the second part of Parismus Prince of Bohemia, by Emanuel Foord (1598).

Angelica, an heiress with whom Valentine Legend is in love.  For a time he is unwilling to declare himself because of his debts; but Angelica gets possession of a bond for L4000, and tears it.  The money difficulty being adjusted, the marriage is arranged amicably.—­W.  Congreve, Love for Love (1695).

Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle equally delighted in melting tenderness and playful coquetry, in “Statira” or “Millamant;” and even at an advanced age, when she played “Angelica.”—­C.  Dibden.

Angelica, the troth-plight wife of Valere, “the gamester.”  She gives him a picture, and enjoins him not to part with it on pain of forfeiting her hand.  However, he loses it in play, and Angelica in disguise is the winner of it.  After much tribulation, Valere is cured of his vice, and the two are happily united by marriage.—­Mrs. Centlivre, The Gamester (1705).

ANGELI’NA, daughter of lord Lewis, in the comedy called The Elder Brother, by Beaumont and Fletcher (1637).

Angelina, daughter of don Charino.  Her father wanted her to marry Clodio, a coxcomb, but she preferred his elder brother Carlos, a bookworm, with whom she eloped.  They were taken captives and carried to Lisbon.  Here in due time they met, the fathers who went in search of them came to the same spot, and as Clodio had engaged himself to Elvira of Lisbon, the testy old gentlemen agreed to the marriage of Angelina with Carlos.—­C.  Cibber, Love Makes a Man.

Angelique’ (3 syl.), daughter of Argan the malade imaginaire.  Her lover is Cleante (2 syl.).  In order to prove whether his wife or daughter loved him the better, Argan pretended to be dead, whereupon the wife rejoiced greatly that she was relieved of a “disgusting creature,” hated by every one; but the daughter grieved as if her heart would break, rebuked herself for her shortcomings, and vowed to devote the rest of her life in prayer for the repose of his soul.  Argan, being assured of his daughter’s love, gave his free consent to her marriage with Cleante.—­Moliere, Malade Imaginaire (1673).