Whistling to the air, which but for vacancy
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too
And made a gap in nature.
Instead of accumulating further instances of these very modern and individual (and sometimes far-fetched) personifications, it is of more interest to see how Shakespeare used Nature, not only as background and colouring, but to act a part of her own in the play, so producing the grandest of all personifications.
At the beginning of Act III. in King Lear, Kent asks:
Who's there beside foul weather?
Gentleman: One minded like the weather, most unquietly.
Kent: Where's the King?
Gent: Contending with the fretful elements.
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea,