Deep in the being of those wondrous elves
Who show their wisdom through a merry mask.
Yet now my power hath not advanced so far.
Felix Balde:
Felicia, thou knowest how I love
Those fairy beings who do visit thee;
But to conceive them as mechanical
Embodied dolls—this goes against the grain.
Dame Balde:
As yet I have not brought them to thee thus;