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A class where we finally talk about the whole soliloquy, with which I am obsessed, in which Macbeth calls or Seyton and considers how his way of life is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf."\xa0 We get there by means of Sonnet 12, but that means talking about the sonnets: first the nature of sonnet sequences from Petrarch through Wyatt to Sidney and Shakespeare, then of course (via Wyatt) about Tottel's miscellany, and then a discussion of Sonnet 73 and its echoes of Macbeth's soliloquy, and ultimately about the nature of interruption, here as well as in Lear:\n\nPrithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:\nThis tempest will not give me leave to ponder\nOn things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.\n\xa0\nTo the Fool\nIn, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--\nNay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.\nFool goes in\n\xa0\nPoor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,\nThat bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,\nHow shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,\nYour loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you\nFrom seasons such as these?\xa0\n\xa0\n\nMacbeth interrupts himself to call for his last loyal servant; Lear to dismiss him.