...Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will not take, Miranda proceeds to fill in the tabula rasa: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other ... I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known.19 Likewise, the sixteenth-century Protestant...

...questions regarding a privileged language: Prospero: Abhorred slave, [wjhich any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, [t]ook...thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like [a]thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes [w]ith words...

...civilising European female idealist, Miranda, who is centrally instrumental in this, since it was she who Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour...thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words...

...will not take. Being capable of all ill! I pitied thce, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thce each hour One thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow 'd thy purposes With words...

...linguistic castration onto her debased Other: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took...thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that...

...peopled else This isle with Calibans. PROSPERO Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took...thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words...

...of language and her stewardship of education: Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took...thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words...

...Miranda, taught him to know himself, understand his own worth and articulate his feelings. Miranda I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words...

...christening Pirie-Gordon "Caliban," in reference to that passage in The Tempest when Prospero says: ... I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...thing or other: when thou didst not (savage) Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I informed thy purposes With words....

...— is not in their best interests. Consider Miranda's judgment of her attempts to educate Caliban: I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught...thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words...