"O, a cherubim Thou wast that did preserve me! Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from Heaven." (e) She is innocent and unacquainted with mankind and hates the sight of evil. When she first sees Ferdinand, she asks: "What is't? A spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit." Again: "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 finally: "How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't." She says of Caliban: "'Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on." (f) She is grateful. When she is told of Gonzalo's services to her and her father, she exclaims: "Would I might But ever see that man!" (g) She is a loving, faithful woman: While Ferdinand is at work she pleads: "Alas, now, pray you, Work not so hard,---- Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this burns, 'Twill weep for having wearied you." Again: "If you'll sit down, I'll bear your logs the while." Later Ferdinand asks, "Wherefore weep you?" Miranda answers: "At mine unworthiness,---- ----Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no." (h) Lover and father both bestow unqualified praise upon her. Ferdinand says: "Admired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration; worth What's dearest to the world!---- ----but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best!" Her father says: "O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind her." 3. _Ferdinand._ The quotations we have made from the text seem to have answered our question as to Miranda's worthiness. Upon what sort of a man has she set her affections? Will she find in her husband the man she thinks she is to marry? Answer these questions for yourselves by reading the text and setting down the proofs as we did while studying Miranda. 4. _Ariel._ Prospero's agent Ariel is an interesting study, for the poet has drawn him with lines so clear and exact that he seems a veritable person. Will you not seek to know him, and in doing so follow these suggestions? (a) Ariel appears in the following scenes: ACT I SCENE II (three times) ACT II SCENE I (twice) ACT III SCENE II (once) SCENE III (once) ACT IV SCENE I (once) ACT V SCENE I (five times)