Blood-stained with these valiant combatants.

Striking instances of personification from Antony and Cleopatra are:

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne

Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold;

Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that

The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,

Which to the time of flutes kept stroke, and made

The water which they beat to follow faster

As amorous of their strokes.

And Antony, enthron'd in the market-place, sat alone