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Silvia is a pretty young lady that a lot of young swans are looking for, including the pair of friends

at the
beginning of the novel, Valentine and Proteus (who have already exchanged rings and vows with the fair
Julia, who shows up as Sebastian in drag). This song is performed by musicians outside her tower
window, hired by yet another guy (Thurio, the father's preference of suitor for Silvia) to woo her.

In the first stanza, the song tells the listener that people flock to be with Sylvia: she is "holy, fair and
wise." Heaven gave her grace to be greatly admired. Sylvia 's qualities are such that she hits the physical
eye, giving the appearance of a lovely, yet cold, statue. The poet asks in the second verse if her inner
nature, her human characteristics of affection and compassion, suits her outer appearance.

"Love doth to her eyes repair/To help him of his blindness/And, being help'd, inhabits there" relates to
Christ and his miracles to cure the blind. When Love "repairs" (or is drawn to) the eye of Silvia, Love,
being blind, needs to be repaired and restored. The blindness is helped or cured by Silvia, and then Love
remains where it has been repaired. To have just this impact, Christ's miracles of healing the blind are
represented. Before the cure, the person was without God. But the individual was converted after the
miracle and realized that God had wrought a miracle upon them.

This song was arranged to be sung under her window by Turio and Proteus, two gentlemen in love with
Silvia. The lyrics allude to the similarity in the stanza that you list as a continuation of the "holy" theme
mentioned in the above stanza with Christ. Silvia is related here to the fundamental Christian
understanding of love, that it cures and transforms.

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