 By certain scales i' 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 it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes...  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 260by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...meap, if dearth, Or foizon,1 follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises ; as it ebbs, tlie seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,...sun ; so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine. — A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I should be ; but I'll ne'er... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 646 pages
...i' the pyramid; they know, By the height, the Inwncss, or the mean, if dearth, Or foi/.on,3 follow : ther, and wherefore should one bastard ? Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us : if th oo/.c- scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest.* I*ep. You have strange serpents there. Ant.... | |
 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1887 - 606 pages
...i' the pyramid ; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foizon, follow : The higher Nilus swells The more it promises : as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest." The crop of wheat, flax or beans, is sown without ploughing in November, and reaped in March. During... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...scales i'lhe pyramid ; they know, By the height the lowness, or the mean,* if dearth, Or foizon, follow: The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as...the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his groin, And shortly comes to harvest I.ep. You have strange serpents there. Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. Your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 526 pages
...presence of the eye to Jill them." By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon,1 follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises ; as...sun ; so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine. — A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I should be ; but I'll ne'er... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 534 pages
...between a pike and a halberd. By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon, 1 follow. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises; as...scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest. Ant. Ay, Lepidus. Lep. You have strange serpents there. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 202 pages
...i' 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...sun : so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, and some wine. — A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I should be, but I '11 ne'er... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1843 - 594 pages
...i' the pyramid : they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foison, follow6. The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises : as...sun : so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, — and some wine ! — A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er... | |
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