...universality, find issue in an image which will run in various forms like a thread through the future action : This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. [I. iv. 44.] Shakespeare's mature experience...

...the dominating movement of the play, as, for example, in the description of the common people which Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. Act I, Scene 4 Or the beautiful simile that...

...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 and back, lackeying the varying tide, / To rot itself with motion" (1.4.45-47). But if such an approach admirably...

...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 stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. MESSENG. Caesar, I bring thee word Menecrates...

...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...

...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 stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (1.4.44-47) Hoping to rely on Antony's leadership...

...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 stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (I.iv.44) Indeed, his very next words, delayed...

...is the larger satellite Triton not suitable for this calculation for Neptune? 5 Spin-Orbit Coupling This common body. Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream. Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide. To rot itself with motion. William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra,...

...decadence within them, as Octavius is the first to complain: It hath been taught us from the primal state. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. (1.4.41, 44-47) "Rome" and "Egypt" in Antony...

...how she begins 'to see those marvellous short stories asleep in an image, as it were. For instance: Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide To rot itself with motion. 'That is terrible', she goes on, 'it contains...