...passages of a sublimely confessional, yet unrepentant, tone: My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (v. iii. 22) Then, later, even more famous: She should have died hereafter. There would...

...selfknowledge, attains grace. He knows that he must forfeit 'honour' and all things of concord and life: . . . that which should accompany old age, As honour, love,...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (v. iii. 24) 1 This opposition of 'grace' and 'evil' I have already observed in The Wheel...

...in which the king is gloomily reflecting on what he has to look forward to for the rest of his life: And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...Which the poor heart would fain deny but dare not. (Act V, Scene III, 11. 24-28) As king, Macbeth would normally expect courtesy; but having forfeited...

...disseat me now. I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, 20 And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. Seton! SETON enters SETON What's your gracious pleasure? MACBETH What news more? 30 SETON...

...Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. William Shakespeare, Macbeth 13. The Man Who Would Be King, 1849-1855 Toward the end...