Now it is very evident that, if genitrix be a specimen of gender, Domina is something more.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
Spenser sends in Latin the saucy messages of his sweetheart, "meum corculum," to Harvey; Harvey, with academic gallantry, sends her in Latin as many thanks for her charming letter as she has hairs, "half golden, half silver, half jewelled, in her little head;"-she is a second little Rosalind-"altera Rosalindula," whom he salutes as "Domina Immerito, mea bellissima Colina Clouta."
"Spenser (English Men of Letters Series)"
R. W. Church
The Latin mea Domina became in French madame; in English ma'am; and, in the language of servants, 'm.
"A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2)"
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn