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  • In _Macbeth_ (IV., iii., 92-4) he specifically defined "the king-becoming graces": --

    Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Sidney Lee 1892

  • Cymbeline has enough for Shakespeare's present purpose of "the king-becoming graces"; but we think first and last of her who was "truest speaker" and those who "called her brother, when she was but their sister; she them brothers, when they were so indeed."

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • Gives way to in repose, or Malcolm's self-doubts: "The king-becoming graces, ...

    In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008

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