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T 1) - Adonis
Reason: Eliot's first note.
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T 2) - Aeneas
Reason: Hero of the Aeneid by Virgil. Alluded to in Eliot's note to line 92
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T 3) - Antonio
Reason: Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest
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T 4) - Antony and Cleopatra
Reason: A play by Shakespere, mentioned in Eliot's note to line 77
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T 5) - Aphrodite
Reason: Greek goddess equivalent to the Roman Venus. Was in love with Adonis. See Eliot's first note.
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T 6) - Apocalypse of John
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T 7) - Apollinaire, Guillaume
Reason: Apollinaire wrote a play entitled The Breasts of Tiresias. (see line 219.)
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T 8) - Arnold, Matthew
Reason: Wrote Dover Beach. Line 420 has an allusion to Dover Beach.
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T 9) - Artemis
Reason: Compare the Greek goddess Artemis with the Roman Diana. Diana is mentioned in Eliot's note to line 197
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T 10) - Attis
Reason: Eliot's first note.
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T 11) - Augustine, Saint
Reason: Eliot's note to line 307
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T 12) - Baudelaire, Charles
Reason: Eliot's note to line 60 and Eliot's note to line 76
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T 13) - Belladonna (Atropa belladonna)
Reason: Belladonna, mentioned on line 182 means "beautiful lady" but it is also a poisonous plant.
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T 14) - Bradley, F. H.
Reason: Eliot's note to line 411
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T 15) - Buddha
Reason: Eliot's note to line 308
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T 16) - Carthage
Reason: Mentioned on line 307.
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T 17) - Chaucer, Geoffrey
Reason: Line 1 may be an allusion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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T 18) - clairvoyance
Reason: Madame Sosostris was a clairvoyant (line 43.)
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T 19) - Cleopatra
Reason: Line 77 has an allusion to this Shakespearean Character.
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T 20) - Cleopatra VII - Historical figure
Reason: Eliot's note to line 77
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T 21) - Conrad, Joseph
Reason: Author of the original quote for the poem's epigraph.
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T 22) - Coriolanus - Shakespeare play
Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play.
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T 23) - Coriolanus, Caius Marcius - Shakespere character
Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespearean character.
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T 24) - Coriolanus, Gnaeus Marcius - Historical figure
Reason: Line 416 has an allusion to this Shakespearean character. This, though, is the historical Coriolanus.
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T 25) - Cumae
Reason: The Sibyl mentioned in the poem's epigraph lived in a cave here.
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T 26) - Cupid
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T 27) - currant
Reason: Currants are mentioned on line 210.
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T 28) - da Vinci, Leonardo
Reason: Painter of The Mona Lisa, the Lady of the Rocks mentioned on line 182.
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T 29) - Daniel, Arnaut
Reason: The speaker of the quote in Eliot's note to line 427
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T 30) - Dante
Reason: Author of The Divine Comedy.
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T 31) - Diana
Reason: Compare the Roman goddess Diana with the Greek Artemis. Diana is mentioned in Eliot's note to line 197
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T 32) - Dickens, Charles
Reason: Author of the quote that was the original title of the poem.
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T 33) - Dido
Reason: Eliot's note to line 92
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T 34) - Divine Comedy, The
Reason: Eliot has many allusions to this work by Dante.
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T 35) - Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhaylovich
Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 is to an essay by Hesse about The Brothers Karamazov, written by Dostoyevsky.
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T 36) - Dryden, John
Reason: Many translations of texts on this site were done by this poet.
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T 37) - Ecclesiastes
Reason: Eliot's note to line 23
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T 38) - Eliot, T. S.
Reason: Author of the poem.
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T 39) - Elizabeth I
Reason: Eliot's note to line 279
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T 40) - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to Emerson's elegaric poem Threnody.
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T 41) - Ezekiel, The Book of
Reason: Eliot's note to line 20
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T 42) - Ferdinand
Reason: Character in Shakespeare's play The Tempest
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T 43) - Frazer, Sir James George
Reason: Author of Golden Bough, mentioned in Eliot's first note.
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T 44) - Gallipoli Campaign
Reason: Alluded to in Eliot's note to line 199
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T 45) - Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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T 46) - Gethsemane
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T 47) - Goldsmith, Oliver
Reason: Eliot's note to line 253
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T 48) - Gospel
Reason: Many allusions are made to the Gospels.
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T 49) - Gospel According to Luke
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T 50) - Gospel According to Matthew
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T 51) - Habsburg, House of
Reason: The archduke mentioned on line 13 was a member of the imperial house of Habsburg.
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T 52) - Hamlet
Reason: Line 172 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play.
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T 53) - Hesse, Hermann
Reason: Eliot's note to line 366
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T 54) - Holy Grail
Reason: Jesse Weston's From Ritual to Romance was partly about the myth of the Holy Grail.
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T 55) - Homer
Reason: In the Odyssey Homer had Odysseus visit Tiresias in Hades (see line 245.)
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T 56) - horoscope
Reason: Madame Sosostris will deliver a horoscope (line 58.)
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T 57) - Huxley, Aldous
Reason: Line 43 has an allusion to a character in a novel by Huxley.
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T 58) - hyacinth
Reason: The hyacinth girl mentioned on line 36 was given this flower.
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T 59) - Hyacinthus
Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to this mythical character.
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T 60) - Imagist
Reason: This movement influenced Eliot's poetry
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T 61) - Izmir
Reason: Izmir is the new name for Smyrna. Mentioned on line 209.
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T 62) - Jacobean tragedy
Reason: Eliot alludes to several works of this type.
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T 63) - James, Henry
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T 64) - Kyd, Thomas
Reason: Eliot's note to line 431
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T 65) - Leicester, (Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester)
Reason: Eliot's note to line 279
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T 66) - Leman (Lac Leman, Lake Geneva)
Reason: Mentioned on line 182.
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T 67) - Lesbos
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T 68) - lilac
Reason: Lilacs are mentioned on line 002 .
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T 69) - London Bridge - bridge
Reason: Mentioned on line 426.
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T 70) - London Bridge - children's singing game
Reason: Mentioned on line 426.
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T 71) - London Docklands
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T 72) - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Reason: Longfellow supplied some of the Dante translations.
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T 73) - Ludwig II (King of Bavaria)
Reason: Line 8 has an allusion to the death of this King.
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T 74) - Magnus, Albertus
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T 75) - Marvell, Andrew
Reason: Eliot's note to line 196
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T 76) - Middleton, Thomas
Reason: Eliot's note to line 138. Note also that Part II is titled A Game of Chess. This is the title of another play by Thomas Middleton.
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T 77) - Milton, John
Reason: Eliot's note to line 98
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T 78) - Munich
Reason: Locale of some places mentioned in Part I.
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T 79) - Mylae, Battle of
Reason: Mentioned on line 70.
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T 80) - Myth
Reason: The Waste Land has allusions to many myths.
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T 81) - Naiad
Reason: A type of water nymph. Nymph is mentioned on line 175.
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T 82) - Nereid
Reason: A type of water nymph. Nymph is mentioned on line 175.
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T 83) - Nerval, Gérard de
Reason: Eliot's note to line 429
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T 84) - Nightingale - Old World
Reason: Mentioned on line 100.
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T 85) - Nightingale Thrush - New World
Reason: Eliot's note to line 357
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T 86) - Nymph
Reason: Mentioned on line 175.
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T 87) - Odin
Reason: Eliot's note to line 46
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T 88) - Odysseus
Reason: Odysseus visited Tiresias in Hades (see line 245.)
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T 89) - Oedipus
Reason: Tiresias was a character in Sopocles' Oedipus, the King (see line 245.)
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T 90) - oracle
Reason: The Sibyl of Cumae mentioned in the poem's epigraph was an oracle.
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T 91) - Osiris
Reason: Eliot's first note.
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T 92) - Ovid
Reason: Eliot's note to line 218
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T 93) - Pater, Walter Horatio
Reason: Author of an essay alluded to by "the Lady of the Rocks" mentioned on line 49.
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T 94) - Perceval
Reason: Eliot's note to line 202
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T 95) - Petronius Arbiter, Gaius
Reason: Author of the Satyricon a quote of which appears in the the poem's epigraph.
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T 96) - Phoebus Apollo
Reason: Line 36 has an allusion to Hyacinthus.
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T 97) - Phoenicia
Reason: Phlebas was a Phoenician (line 312.)
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T 98) - Pope, Alexander
Reason: Deleted section of the poem was written in the style of this poet. Also, many translations of texts on this site were done by Pope.
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T 99) - Pound, Ezra
Reason: The poem was edited by Pound and dedicated to him.
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T 100) - Psalms
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T 101) - ragtime
Reason: Line 128 has an allusion to The Shakespearean Rag.
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T 102) - raisin
Reason: Currants are mentioned on line 210.
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T 103) - resurrection
Reason: The Golden Bough tells of many myths of resurrection, some of which were incorporated into The Waste Land.
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T 104) - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Reason: Line 182 has an allusion to Rousseau weeping at Lac Leman.
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T 105) - Russell, Bertrand
Reason: Russell was a financial supporter of Eliot and possibly intimate with his first wife.
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T 106) - Saint John
Reason: The draft had an allusion to Saint John (see line 56.)
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T 107) - Sanskrit language
Reason: Line 433 is in Sanskrit.
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T 108) - Sanskrit literature
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T 109) - Sappho
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T 110) - Sermon on the Mount
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T 111) - Shackleton, Sir Ernest
Reason: Eliot's note to line 360
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T 112) - Shakespeare, William
Reason: There are many allusions to plays by Shakespeare.
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T 113) - Sibyl
Reason: The Sibyl of Cumae is the subject of the poem's epigraph.
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T 114) - Smyrna
Reason: Mentioned on line 209.
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T 115) - Sophocles
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T 116) - Spenser, Edmund
Reason: Eliot's note to line 176
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T 117) - Stevenson, Robert Louis
Reason: Author of a possible allusion for line 221
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T 118) - Symbolist movement
Reason: This movement influenced Eliot's poetry
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T 119) - Tammuz
Reason: Compare with the gods mentioned in Eliot's first note.
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T 120) - Tarot
Reason: Eliot's note to line 46
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T 121) - Tereus
Reason: Part of the Philomela myth mentioned in Eliot's note to line 99
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T 122) - Thames, River
Reason: Mentioned on line 176 (and others).
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T 123) - The Brothers Karamazov
Reason: Eliot's note to line 366 is to an essay by Hesse about The Brothers Karamazov, written by Dostoyevsky.
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T 124) - The Tempest
Reason: Line 48 has an allusion to this Shakespeare play.
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T 125) - Thebes
Reason: Tiresias sat by Thebes below the wall (see line 245.)
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T 126) - Tiresias
Reason: Eliot's note to line 218
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T 127) - Tristan and Isolde
Reason: Legend used by Wagner for his opera, lines from which appear in the poem at lines 31-34 and line 42
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T 128) - Upanishad
Reason: Eliot's note to line 401
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T 129) - Veda
Reason: Eliot's note to line 401
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T 130) - Venus
Reason: Was in love with Adonis. See Eliot's first note.
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T 131) - Verlaine, Paul
Reason: Eliot's note to line 202
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T 132) - Virgil
Reason: Author of the Aeneid mentioned in Eliot's note to line 92 Fictional guide of Dante in The Divine Comedy
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T 133) - Wagner, Richard
Reason: There are several allusions to operas by Wagner.
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T 134) - Webster, John
Reason: Eliot's note to line 74 and Eliot's note to line 118 and Eliot's note to line 407
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T 135) - Wheel of Life
Reason: Mentioned on line 320.
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T 136) - Whitman, Walt
Reason: There may be several allusions to poems by Whitman.
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T 137) - Wittelsbach, House of
Reason: The Marie mentioned on line 15 was a member of Bavaria's house of Wittelsbach.
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T 138) - Wren, Sir Christopher
Reason: Eliot's note to line 264
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