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Lines 77-79:
The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines... Eliot's Note:
77. Cf. Anthony and Cleopatra, II, ii, l. 190 Context: In Act II, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, Enobarbus describes Cleopatra's royal barge as it appeared when she first pursued Marc Antony:
Enobarbus The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made The water they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. |