Of all perfections that a man may owe [own]
Matchless Navarre.
Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost (1594).
Fer´dinand, son of Alonso, king of Naples. He falls in love with Miranda, daughter of Prospero, the exiled duke of Milan.—Shakespeare, The Tempest (1609).
Haply so
Miranda’s hope had pictured Ferdinand
Long ere the gaunt wave tossed him on the shore.
Lowell.
Ferdinand, a fiery young Spaniard, in love with Leonora.—Jephson, Two Strings to your Bow (1792).
Ferdinand (Don), the son of Don Jerome of Seville, in love with Clara d’Almanza, daughter of Don Guzman.—Sheridan, The Duenna (1773).