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countess...Closing line from John Marston's masque: The Entertainment of Alice, Dowager-Countess of Derby. Niobe is often equated with 'fallen towers', usually Rome, but here a simile with Venice is drawn. The cabinet is the actual poem, which is, like the cabinet in Poe's short story "The Assignation", a medley of architectural embellishments. reference topics
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