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“Thus surely bound, yet be not overbold
The slippery god will try to loose his hold.”
Virgil, Georgics, Book IV, l. 585, trans. Dryden.

“He hid his own identity, pretending he was someone else, a beggar—something he’d never been among Achaean ships—and then went in the Trojans’ city. None of them suspected anything. I was the only one who recognized him, in spite of his disguise. I questioned him, but his skill in deception made him evasive.... My heart by then had changed—it now desired to go back. I was sorry for that blindness Aphrodite brought, when she’d led me there.”
Homer, Odyssey, Book IV, l. 330 ss. [Odysseus & Helen of Troy].

The Irish Rovers — Finnegans Wake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6QTwZDzak4

“The old man comes ashore—easy to take him while he sleeps.”
Virgil, Georgics, Book IV, l. 404 [Aristaeus restores bees but Orpheus lost Eurydice].

Rissa has welcomed & loved passionately the beggarly Tevinter Magister.
Merrill finds dissolved her love enchantment, by blood magic over Rissa.

Gerry Rafferty — Baker Street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Yi762sQTo

“I tell you,” said Keawe, “the man who has that bottle goes to hell.”
“I reckon I’m going anyway,” returned the sailor; “and this bottle’s the best thing to go with I’ve struck yet. No, 
sir!” he cried again, “this is my bottle now, and you can go and fish for another.”
“Can this be true?” Keawe cried. “For your own sake, I beseech you, sell it me!”
“I don’t value any of your talk,” replied the boatswain.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Bottle Imp.

Her deep sympathy for Isabela will forbid a possible Castillon ship deal.
Let Cullen himself take in Sundermount demons the templars cultivate.