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Part IV

. The Man with Three Staves (an authentic member of the Tarot pack) I associate, quite arbitrarily, with the Fisher King himself.

60. Cf. Baudelaire:

“Fourmillante cité, cité; pleine de rêves, Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant.” 63. Cf. _Inferno_, iii. 55-7.

“si lunga tratta di gente, ch’io non avrei mai creduto che morte tanta n’avesse disfatta.” 64. Cf. _Inferno_, iv. 25-7:

“Quivi, secondo che per ascoltare, “non avea pianto, ma’ che di sospiri, “che l’aura eterna facevan tremare.” 68. A phenomenon which I have often noticed.

74. Cf. the Dirge in Webster’s _White Devil_.

76. V. Baudelaire, Preface to _Fleurs du Mal_.

II. A GAME OF CHESS

77. Cf. _Antony and Cleopatra_, II. ii., l. 190.

92. Laquearia. V. _Aeneid_, I. 726:

dependent lychni laquearibus aureis incensi, et noctem flammis funalia vincunt. 98. Sylvan scene. V. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iv. 140.

99. V. Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, vi, Philomela.

100. Cf. Part III , l. 204.

115. Cf. Part III , l. 195.

118. Cf. Webster: “Is the wind in that door still?”

126. Cf.