\paperw3990 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 This passage from ShakespeareÆs \i Macbeth\i0 was written around 1606, three years after the accession of James I to the thron
e. The use of dramatic images shows how language had been expanded and enriched. However, it also mirrors the dramatic political events of the day. It was only one year earlier that the authorities foiled the Gunpowder Plot, a Catholic conspiracy to blow
up the English Houses of Parliament.\par
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ô\i Who can be wise, amazÆd, temperate, and furious,\par
Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.\par
The expedition of my violent love\par
Out-ran the pauser reason. - Here lay Duncan,\par
His silver s
kin lacÆd with his golden blood;\par
And his gashÆd stabs lookÆd like a breach in nature,\par
For ruinÆs wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,\par
SteepÆd in the colours of their trade, their daggers\par
