... Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "That strain again! It had a dying fall" (I.i.1), referring to a piece of music. Cf. "Portrait of a Lady," line 122. 60. butt-ends: the discarded, unsmoked ends of cigarettes or cigars. 82. Herod gave John the Baptist's decapitated head to the dancer Salome as a ... reward (Mark 6.17-29; Matthew 14.3-11). 83. I am no prophet: Amos said, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit" (Amos 7.14), when commanded by King Amaziah of ... other people, repeating "visions and revisions"(33) and "decisions ...

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