Full fathom five thy father lies.
<span>Of his bones are coral made </span>
<span>Those are pearls that were his eyes </span>
<span>Nothing of him that Doth fade </span>
<span>But doth suffer a sea change </span>
<span>Into something rich and strange </span>
<span>See names hourly ring his knell </span>
<span>Ding dong. Hark! Now I hear them ding dong bell.</span>
<span>Simple language. ... <span>Stories. ... </span></span>
<span>1692, the Massachusetts Bay Colony executed fourteen women, five men, and two dogs for witchcraft. The sorcery materialized in January. The first hanging took place in June, the last in September; a stark, stunned silence followed. Although we will never know the exact number of those formally charged with having “wickedly, maliciously, and feloniously” engaged in sorcery, somewhere between a hundred and forty-four and a hundred and eighty-five witches and wizards were named in twenty-five villages and towns. The youngest was five; the eldest nearly eighty. Husbands implicated wives; nephews their aunts; daughters their mothers; siblings each other. One minister discovered that he was related to no fewer than twenty witches.</span>
The Tang dynasty is my best go at it. This is because Emperor Taizong ruled during the Tang dynasty.
