"A Game of Chess" Annotations
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“Is the wind in that door still?” | “Is the wind in that door still?” | ||
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| + | ===Thomas Middleton=== | ||
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| + | The hot water at ten. | ||
| + | And if it rains, a closed car at four. | ||
| + | And we shall play a game of chess, | ||
| + | Pressing lidless eyes and waiting for a knock upon the door. | ||
| + | Lines 135-38 | ||
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| + | From ''Women Beware Women'' I.II | ||
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| + | It appears from the following passage in our poet's Game Chess that the pieces now called rooks were sometimes formerly called dukes | ||
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| + | Error. There's the full number of the game | ||
| + | Kings and their pawns queens bishops | ||
| + | Knights and dukes | ||
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| + | Ign. Dukes they re called rookes by some | ||
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| + | Error. Corruptively | ||
| + | Le Roc fi the word Custodie de la Roch | ||
| + | The Keeper of the Forts | ||
==Lines 139-172== | ==Lines 139-172== | ||
