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==Essay on A Game of Chess==
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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.
                    Lines 97-103

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''
     Ferdinand:
     Full fathom five thy father lies;
     Of his bones are coral made;
     Those are pearls that were his eyes:
     Nothing of him that doth fade
     But doth suffer a sea-change
     Into something rich and strange.
     Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
     ''I.ii The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.''

===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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===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 
     <br>
     Ign. Dukes they re called rookes by some 
     <br>
     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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