...tissue — on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-color 'd fans; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle...Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands ... [Ivory 99-100]. The opening lines of the play text, Philo's assessment of Marc Antony, are transported...

...The Silken Tackle. Swell with the touches ol those Flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the olfice. From the Barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent Wharfes. The Ciny cast Her people out upon her: and Aathoae Enthron'd i'tl1' Market-place. did sit...

..."did coole" give way to the great present tense forms of At the Helme A seeming Mer-maide steeres : The Silken Tackle, Swell with the touches of those...strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent Wharfes.* as the 'there and then' becomes 'here and now'. Next the verbs return to a mixture of the...

...seeming mermaid steers: No obvious man is allowed in this picture. Do speak these lines, and hear them: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands. That yarely frame the office. The memory of an aroma stops Enobarbus. He draws a breath before recalling it, often eyes closed: From...

...gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i'th'eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the helm A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle...strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her; and Antony, Enthroned i'th'market-place, did sit alone,...

...trod on them. Cleopatra was so obsessed with scent that the sails of her cedar ship were perfumed. "From the barge / a strange invisible perfume hits the sense / of the adjacent wharfs," wrote Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra. In Crete, athletes anointed themselves with specific...