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"Doubtful it stood; / As two spent swimmers, that do cling together / And choke their art." Act II, Scene 3

The Sergeant compares two sides of the battle to two tired swimmers who cling to each other and drown as a result.

"... fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, / Show'd like a rebel's whore... " Act I, Scene 2

Fortune seemed to favor Macdonwald at first, just as a prostitute favors a man for a short time, but leaves him afterwards.

"And pity, like a naked new-born babe." Act I, Scene 7

Shakespeare is comparing pity to the helplessness of a new-born infant.

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