THE TEMPEST
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Miranda.
This visitation shows it. You look wearily.
Ferdinand.
No, noble mistress; ’tis fresh morning with me,
When you are by at night. I do beseech you—
Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers—
What is your name?
When you are by at night. I do beseech you—
Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers—
What is your name?
Miranda.
What is your name? Miranda.—O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so!
I have broke your hest to say so!
Ferdinand.
I have broke your hest to say so! Admired Miranda!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regard and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature ’s best!
Indeed the top of admiration! worth
What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regard and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature ’s best!
Miranda.
Of every creature ’s best! I do not know
One of my sex; no woman’s face remember,
Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
More that I may call men than you, good friend,
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
One of my sex; no woman’s face remember,
Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
More that I may call men than you, good friend,
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
