Eliot's note for line 77

Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, II, ii 190.

Commentator's note

Part I, line 77

• 77)  The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne,
  

To William Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, scene ii line 190 where Enobarbus begins his description of Antony and Cleopatra's first meeting:

The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne
Burned on the water . . .