Love Looks Not With the Eyes, But With the Mind (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616)



Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Sc. 1.

Vocabulary:
1) vile: (formal) shameful and evil; despicable
a vile slander
(informal) very bad, nasty, or unpleasant
She has a vile temper.
This food is vile.

2) transpose: 1. to reverse the order or position of (usual two things)
If you transpose the letters of "at" it reads "ta".
2. to write or perform (a piece of music) in a musical key different from the original one