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Helena says this in Act 1 Scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is part of a speech in which she wonders about the randomness of love. In these two lines she says that Love has the power to change things, to transpose them, so that even if they start out awful, poor, second-rate, lousy, base and vile (by which I hope you understand is meant not good) Love can make them have a beautiful shape and form, a nobility and a dignity. Or rather Love can seem to make these changes. For, as she continues, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." When you are in love you see the one you love as much better than he or she might appear if you were not in love.

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