5 6 Milton D. Baumgartner 



In reply to Prospero's description : " Those who once behold 

 tliem are made their slaves forever," Hippolito says : 



" Can they be fairer than the plumes of swans? . . . 

 Or than the gloss upon the neck of doves? 

 Or have more various beauty than the rainbow?" II, 2. 



Sham asks Japhet : 



"1st sie so fiirchterlich grosz, ist der Madchen Schonheit so Sieghaft? 

 Konnen sie heller seyn, als die weissen Federn der Schwane, 

 Oder anmutiger, als der Glanz am Nacken der Dauben? 

 Oder sind ihre Farben verschiedner und feiner vertheilet, 

 Als der traufelnde Staub, der die Sonnenstrahlen gebrochen," III, 582 flf. 



At first sight both Hippolito and Japhet believe the maidens to 

 be children of the heavenly sun. 



"What thing is this? Sure 'tis some infant of the 

 Sun, dressed in his father's gayest beams, 

 And come to play with birds " : II, 3. 



" . . . o flieht nicht, Kinder der himmlischen Sonne, . . . 

 Schon geschmiickt ... in der hellsten Farben der Sonne, . , . 

 Mit dem schlechtern Schmuck der Blumen zu spielen." 



The first sight Dorinda gets of Hippolito has the same effect 

 upon her as the first sight of Japhet has upon the three daughters 

 of Sipha: 



" At first it stared upon me, and seemed wild, 

 And then I trembled ; yet it looked so lovely. 

 But when I would have fled, my feet 

 Seemed fastened to the ground ..." Ill, 2. 



" Eben so schienen die Madchen bestiirzt, und standen erstaunt da. 

 An den Boden der Fusz, das Aug an Japhet geheft." I, 141-142. 



Hippolito and Ferdinand are described as a bud and a full- 

 blown flower : 



" For shortly, my Miranda, you shall see 

 Another of his kind, the full-blown flower 

 Of which this youth was but the opening bud." Ill, 2. 



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