| William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love, 'Comes dear'd, by being lack'd.7 This common body, Like a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,8 To rot itself with motion. Mess. Caesar, I bring thee word, Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,... | |
| 1856 - 526 pages
...slipping from the feeble hands that would hold it, swings idly with the motion of the waves, and, " Like a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back,...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion." Just rulers are slow in the adoption of new principles of legislation, and seek, both in the enactment... | |
| Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...this perspective, the play's audience and readers are similar to the fickle Roman populace, which, "Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, / Goes to...lackeying the varying tide, / To rot itself with motion" (1.4.45-47). But if such an approach admirably measures the play's ambiguity and "infinite variety,"... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1993 - 166 pages
...until he were; And the ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. 41 This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. MESSENG. Caesar, I bring thee word Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, Make the sea serve them, which... | |
| Harley Granville-Barker - 1993 - 164 pages
...to speak of The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love . . . and, with what contempt, of how This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and fro, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Not, on the whole then, a hopeful picture... | |
| John Gillies - 1994 - 312 pages
...suggest evanescence and illusion. Such is Caesar's image of the 'vagabond flag upon the stream' which 'Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, / To rot itself with motion' (1.4.45-7). Such again is Antony's final vision of existential despair, when reviewing his life as... | |
| Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 pages
...my troth ; not so much as will serve to be a prologue to an egg and butter. [...] Haï: Thou sayest well, and it holds well too : for the fortune of us that are the moon 's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as is the sea, by the moon. (italiques... | |
| Gordon Williams - 1996 - 298 pages
...against the triumvirs; but his image of the fickle plebs betrays how his mind still runs on Antony: This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (I.iv.44) Indeed, his very next words, delayed by the arrival of more news, are: 'Antony, / Leave thy... | |
| Shirley Nelson Garner, Madelon Sprengnether - 1996 - 346 pages
...Antony's "dotage," which "o'erflows the measure," or that of the fickle populace as Caesar describes it: This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the...lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (1.4.44-47) Hoping to rely on Antony's leadership and soldiership, Caesar attempts to solidify their... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1998 - 340 pages
...countenance (a) visage (b) protection, maintenance, as at i. 147 below steal (a) go stealthily (b) rob PRINCE HENRY Thou sayst well, and it holds well too,...fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow 30 like the sea, being governed as the sea is by the moon. As for proof now : a purse of gold most... | |
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