...his destiny as a lover. She represents the Egypt Antony describes to Lepidus when he returns to Rome: The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (II. vii. 21-24) 46 Antony and Cleopatra This Cleopatra is not so much a character in her own right...

...scale, in the pyramid; they know By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Lepidus: You've strange serpents there. Antony: Ay, Lepidus. Lepidus: Your serpent of Egypt is bred...

...bodies to be sighted. 26 The whole somewhat involved process is well explained in Krupp (1984: 192). 27 [...]the higher Nilus swells The more it promises:...slime and ooze scatters his grain. And shortly comes the harvest. Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene VII. Note also the Andamanese 'who have...

...state, 'Still harping on my daughter' (Hamlet, 2, 2). 517 (p. 193) Lepidus would say . . .your sun 'Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun. So is your crocodile' (Antony and Cleopatra, 2, 7). Lepidus, one of the three rulers of Rome, says this while drunk. 519...

...ooze scatters his grain, And't shortly comes to harvest. You've strange serpents there? Ay, Lepidus. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile. They are so. Sit — and some wine! A health to Lepidus! I am not so well as I should be, but I'll...

...Nile. The feast on Pompey's barge begins with a geography lesson on the flooding of the Nile: . . . The higher Nilus swells. The more it promises; as...scatters his grain. And shortly comes to harvest. (2.7.20-24) But it is not long before the lesson takes a carnivalesque turn. Lepidus interrupts with...

...makes the same point: one knows By th' height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (2.7.19-23) The human dimension, the changing fortunes of political, military, and amorous striving,...

...i' in the pyramid; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises: as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (Il.vii. 1 7-23) To Cleopatra, the end of life is not corporeal death, but her body hoisted up as a...

...I. 189 are the contemptuous 'that you know of similar to the ethical dative you', see 3.4. i46n and 'Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun ; so is your crocodile' (Anioni/ 2.7.26-7). Honigmann quotes Halliwell's gloss on conversion as 'converse (= conversation)*,...

...and biological diversity. The river Nile is the central symbol of this overflowing natural foison. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. (II.vii.21) But the Nile, according to some in the play, does not merely nurture existing life; it...