(Love's Labour's Lost.)
This is modern down to its finest detail, and much richer in individuality than the most famous comparisons of the same kind in antiquity.
Sea and stream are used:
Like an unseasonable stormy day
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke. (Richard II.)
The current that with gentle murmur glides,
Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;