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Quotation from My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
“Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!”
My Last Duchess, Lines 54-56 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition))
The closing lines move straight from his next bride to another prized possession, a bronze of a god taming a creature.
Citation: "Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!" — Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Lines 54-56 (Dramatic Lyrics, 1842 (text from Baker's 1899 edition)). (id my-last-duchess-q6)
Portrait: Robert Browning by Herbert Rose Barraud, circa 1888, Herbert Rose Barraud / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
