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By Mary Kathryn Cornwell - December 01, 2003

The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touched

The very virtue of compassion in thee,

I have with such provision in mine art

So safely ordered that there is no soul-

No, not so much perdition as an hair

Betid to any creature in the vessel

Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. (1531)

In William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the character of…

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