...delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereids, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made...The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthron'd i' the market place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air; which, but for Vacancy, Had gone...

...delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Agrippa ; O ! rare for Antony ! Enobarbus : Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids,...cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze...

...gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i'th'eyes, 210 And made their bends adornings: 55 at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle...cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i'th'market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to th'air; which, but for vacancy, 57 Had gone to gaze...

...cool, And what they undid did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm...The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Whistling to th' air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in...

...And what they undid did. . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i'th' eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm...adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her . . . (2.2.199-221) One passage is rich prose, the other great poetry; it is extraordinary how Shakespeare...

...like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i'th' eyes. And made their bends adomings. At me hehn A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle Swell...cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthroned i'th' market-place, did sit alone, Whisding to th'air, which but for vacancy Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra...

...what they undid did. . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' th' eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm...cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i' th' marketplace, did sit alone, Whistling to th' air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on...

...poets and dramatists notably TS Eliot - to an ambiguous relationship with their own literary heritage? The silken tackle Swell with the touches of those...The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthron'd i' th' market place, did sit alone, Whistling to th' air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone...

...were love-sick with them . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids tended her i' th' eyes. And made their bends adornings: at the helm...invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. Similarly, Plutarch having observed that, as a dolphin shows its back above the water, Antony rose...

...delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Jgrippa. O, rare for Antony! Enobarbus. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids,...The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthron'd i" the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy, Had gone...