Most sure, the goddess
On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
May know if you remain upon this island;
And that you will some good instruction give
How I may bear me here: my prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid or no?
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2. When Ferdinand first sees Miranda, he views her as a goddess. He asks her if she lives on what he had thought to be an uninhabited island and if she can help him to survive there. And in the first signs of his love interest, he asks her if she is a maid.