Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet . Claudius: I ha ’t: When in your motion you are hot and dry,— As make your bouts more violent to that end,— And that he calls for drink, I’ll have prepar’d him A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, If he by chance escape your venom’d stuck, Our purpose may hold there. By viewing this excerpt through a historical lens, the reader can conclude that Shakespeare uses the promise of violence to