Here is the epigraph T. S. Eliot chose for his poem "Portrait of a Lady":
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Thou hast committed --
Fornication: but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead.
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from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe (act iv, scene i). Eliot was a master at choosing epigraphs (from Shakespeare, Dante, et al) for his poems, and the lines he lifts from others are among the most memorable in "The Waste Land." Hemingway used "In Another Country" as the title of one the best stories in Men Without Women. -- DL
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