An allegorical figure modeled after Cupid, representing the powerful forces of romance and desire that exert control over the narrator. Love is characterized by nobility and divinity, and often overlaps with the idea of a divine being.

Representing consent and desire in love, Fair Welcome grants permission to pursue the rose, the object of physical desire. The rose serves as a symbol of beauty and passion but remains passive in character.

A foil to Love, Reason embodies rationality and wisdom, challenging the narrator's passions with her practical and dismissive perspective. She is characterized as a personified balance of extremes with minimal feminine physical description.

A group of allegorical antagonists—Rebuff, Evil Tongue, Shame, Fear, and Jealousy—who obstruct the narrator's journey to the rose. Each character's traits align with their names, serving to highlight the challenges in pursuing love.

Allied with Love, these characters are noted for their deceitful nature and religious disguises, using duplicity to aid the narrator. Their partnership symbolizes the theme of hypocrisy in the poem's context.