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==T.S. Eliot Reading "A Game of Chess"==
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==Lines 77-96==

===William Shakespeare===

     The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
     Glowed on the marble, where the glass
     Held up by standards wrought with fruited vines
     Lines 77-79
The lines here are from the play ''Antony and Cleopatra II.ii''

     Enobarbus
     The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
     Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;
     Purple the sails, and so perfumed that

===Virgil===

     In vials of ivory and coloured glass
     Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
     Unguent, powdered, or liquid—troubled, confused
     And drowned the sense in odours; stirred by the air
     That freshened from the window, these ascended
     In fattening the prolonged candle-flames,
     Flung their smoke into the laquearia,
     Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling.
     Lines 86-93
Taken from Virgil's ''Aeneid''

From a translation by Robert Fagles translated works of the ''Aneid''

     They light the lamps,
     hung from the coffered ceilings sheathed in gilt,
     and blazing torches burn the night away.

==Lines 97-103==

===John Milton===

     Above the antique mantel was displayed
     As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
     Lines 97-98
From ''Paradise Lost''.

     A Silvan Scene, and as the ranks ascend
     Shade above shade, a woodie Theatre
     Of stateliest view.

===Ovid===

     Above the antique mantel was displayed
     As though a window gave upon the sylvan scene
     The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
     So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
     Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
     And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
     “Jug Jug” to dirty ears.

From ''Metamorphosis, VI Philomela''

     Throughout ''Metamorphosis'' there is constant mention of birds creating sounds. 
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     Only a cock stood on the rooftree
     Co co rico co co rico
     In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust
     Bringing rain

==Lines 104-110==

==Lines 111-127==

===William Shakespeare===

     Those are pearls that were his eyes.
     Line 125

From ''The Tempest''

===John Webster===

     “What is that noise?”
      The wind under the door.
      Line 117-18

From a Jacobian tragedy stageplay ''The Devil's Case''

     “Is the wind in that door still?”

==Lines 128-138==

===The Mysterious Rag===
     O O O O that Shakespeherian rag—
     It's so elegant
     So intelligent
     Lines 128-30

A popular song called "The Mysterious Rag" by Irving Berlin in 1911 
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Go to: [[Video#That_Mysterious_Rag]]

===Thomas Middleton===
     
     The hot water at ten.
     And if it rains, a closed car at four.
     And we shall play a game of chess,
     Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door.
     Lines 135-38

From ''Women Beware Women'' I.II

     It appears from the following passage in our poet's Game Chess that the pieces now called rooks were sometimes formerly called dukes 
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     Error. There's the full number of the game 
     Kings and their pawns queens bishops 
     Knights and dukes 
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     Ign. Dukes they re called rookes by some 
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     Error. Corruptively 
     Le Roc fi the word Custodie de la Roch 
     The Keeper of the Forts

==Lines 139-172==

===William Shakespeare===

     Good night, ladies, good night, sweet ladies, good night, good night.
     Line 172

From Hamlet, a line by Ophelia IV.V

     '''OPHELIA''' 
     I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I 
     cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him 
     i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it: 
     and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my 
     coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies; 
     good night, good night.

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