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Diana is the Florentine woman who helps Helena fulfill the impossible tasks that Bertram sets for her. She first appears in Act III, as Helena herself arrives in Florence. Diana is a chaste young woman herself and sympathetic to Helena's cause even before Helena reveals her identity (III.v.63-65). When Bertram tries to seduce her, Diana uses language with enough double meanings so that she seems to encourage him, while at the same time she points out his immoral behavior. She says that his "oaths / Are words and poor conditions" (IV.ii.29-30); she doesn't believe him even when he...
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