...in Act II of Shakespeare's play: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them. (Il.ii. 195-98) Harrison rewrites Shakespeare's pun into the context of private grief: the ring is...

...undergoes a miraculous transformation : The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water, the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids tended her i' th' eyes. And made their bends...

...Antony and Cleopatra, UU 1 94-245 : The barge she sat in, like a bumish'd throne,/ Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold;/ Purple the sails, and so...flutes kept stroke, and made/ The water which they beat to follow faster,/ As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,/ It bcggar'd all description:...

...Antony: Enobarbus. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description:...

...called Gloriana by the Elizabethans: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description:...

...Cydnus: Enobarbus. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description:...

...much of North's phraseology remains in lines that nevertheless achieve complete poetic independence: The poop was beaten gold: Purple the sails, and so...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person. It beggared all description....

...Antony's first view of Cleopatra: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so...of flutes kept stroke and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.9 This is not what anyone would call detached, objective...

...people cold and to the famous description of Cleopatra's first meeting with Antony (n, ii, 197-201): Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were...flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes and here, as in the Edward HI passage, there is...

...recital of Cleopatra's river journey: The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so...were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke (2.2.201-5) And yet as luscious as the sounds and pictures may be, even those images employed for their...