ACT V.
Scene 5. Page 570.
Macb. The way to dusty death.
Perhaps no quotation can be better calculated to show the propriety of this epithet than the following grand lines in The vision of Pierce Plowman, a work which Shakspeare might have seen:
"Death came drivynge after, and all to dust pashed
Kynges and kaysers, knightes and popes."
Scriptural language and a passage in the burial service might have likewise suggested the epithet.