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I agree that "steeped" is more evocative (refer to Dickens' funereal black-stocked footmen, "...calves steeped in grief" (Bleak House)) -- but in this case (without a Folio in front of me) "stepped" makes more internal sense, as it goes with "wade," and goes slightly better with the second, redundant "in" (which is needed to make the line scan).
Too bad, however.
Posted by JTJ on March 31, 1997 at 06:33:23
In Reply to "stepped, stepp'd, or steeped? III, iv, 136 Macbeth" posted by Simon Ruddell on March 30, 1997 at 21:36:50
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