 I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour,...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: All's well that ... - Page 336by William Shakespeare - 1823Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1967 - 212 pages
...dis-seat me now. I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. • Seyton 1 Enter Seyton SEYTON What's your gracious pleasure ? MACBETH What news more?... | |
 | Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...speaks of having lost the comforts of life: My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V.iii.22-38) These lines are not an appeal to sympathy; they are a demonstration of... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 572 pages
...life is fallen into the sear, The yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, As honour, troops of friends, I must not look to have; But in...Mouth-honour, breath, which the poor heart Would fain deny and dare wot."' — p. 29. The first play upon which he has favoured us with his remarks is Cymbeline,... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1992 - 100 pages
...despair must rely: I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V, iii, 22-8) Though cross-casting is in itself neither a sufficient nor necessary condition... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - Drama - 1992 - 68 pages
...dis-seat me now. I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath taint : weaken epicures : gluttons patch : idiot whey : skim milk fallen into the sere : withered Which... | |
 | Suzanne Stern-Gillet - Philosophy - 1995 - 248 pages
...Aristotle's point: I have UVd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. 85 These lines express not so much remorse as the belated and bitter realization that... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...that comes purely from the private world: My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...Which the poor heart would fain deny but dare not. (5.3.24-30) Macbeth has, as he says, 'supped full with horrors' (5.5.13); he is scarcely capable of... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 2002 - 396 pages
...sublimely confessional, yet unrepentant, tone: My way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...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... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...disseat me now. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath. Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V.iii.20-28) The way of life he has led is the life of a man who dies young, not the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...— Macbeth III.iv I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, As honour,...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Macbeth — Macbeth V.iii I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards To run and... | |
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