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William Shakespeare1564–1616

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 love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.

William Shakespeare on beauty

Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by Enobarbus

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