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Accompany Macbeth Play I Liv'd Long Life Fall'n

Front "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, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have".
Back Macbeth: Act 5 Scene 3
- This shows how, after the death of King Duncan, Macbeth cannot cope with what he has done (perhaps his religious guilt comes into play here).
- Macbeth becomes more paranoid as the play progresses. The price of fulfilling the ambition was not worth it: that which should accompany old age.
- He lists all things he should have later in life, like an honourable reputation and many friends. He has lost everything after going for the crown.

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