...some defect in her 45 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! 112 ACT THREE Scene 1 Miranda If you'll sit down, I'll carry your logs meanwhile. Please, give it me....

...Ferdinand's expressions of love for Miranda raises her to the level of the ideal woman. "But you, O you,/ So perfect and so peerless, are created/ Of every creature's best." When he first meets her, Ferdinand is sure she must be a goddess. Miranda, who has never seen any other...

...defect in her did quarrel with thè noblest grace she ow'd, 45 and put it to thè foil: but you, O you, so perfect and so peerless, are created of every creature's best! Miranda I do not know one of my sex; no woman's face remember, save, from my glass, mine own; nor have...

...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 I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own: nor have...

...some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, And put it to the foil: but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best! (3-1-37~48) Ferdinand is sophisticated in both the good and bad senses of the word. He has known and...

...mischief: ie, if I speak insincerely, turn the best of my future to evil And put it to the foil. But you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best. MIRANDA I do not know One of my sex, no woman's face remember, 60 Save, from my glass, mine own. Nor...

...some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, 45 And put it to the foil; but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best! MIRANDA I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have...

...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 (lines 48-68): "I do not know one of my sex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass,...

...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. I do not know One of my sex: no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own: nor...

...father, I have broke your hest to say so! Fer Admir'd Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration ! [...] O you, « So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best! (Iil, i, 34-38; 46-48). Quasi al centro geometrico del dramma, Shakespeare, come riconosce Frank Kermode,...