...echoes Enobarbus's description of Cleopatra's barge in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ( 1 606-7): 'the oars were silver, | Which to the tune of flutes...made | The water which they beat to follow faster' (n. ii.). The phrase had considerable resonance for W; it appears, for example, in CAA (CWks viii....

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...massive and overpowering on the flowing and erotic: The barge she sat in, like a burnish 'd throne, Burn'd on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple...person, It beggar'd all description. She did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold, of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy out-work nature....

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...and Romans) - lf Eli H <^Af*> (Plutarch, Lives) bus) ' The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple...to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For their own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth-of-gold tissue...

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...Enobarbus's own soft amazements): the poop was beaten gold! Purple the sails!— the royal color — and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with...faster, As amorous of their strokes! For her own person — Enobarbus has earned an audience laugh here, by failing to find words enough, and letting his audience...

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