"Full many a lady
I have eye'd 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 ow'd,
And put it to the foil. But you, O you,
So perfect and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best."
This passage admiring the perfect matching of inner and outward beauty of a woman is taken from
1
Shakespeare's Tempest
2
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus
3
Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women
4
John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi