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Flower-Soft Hands

Antony and Cleopatra [2.2.255-259]. “At the helm/ A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle/ Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands/ That yarely frame the office.”

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‘Yare‘, from Old English for ready. Three or four mentions in A&C.

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