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Section A: Language change

Question 1

Read Texts A, B and C.
Analyse how Text A exemplifies the various ways in which the English language has changed
over time. In your answer, you should refer to specific details from Texts A, B and C, as well as to
ideas and examples from your wider study of language change. [25]

Text A

Excerpts from a book of moral reflections written by Francis Quarles and Arthur Warwick, printed
in 1680

CHAP. XXI. CHAP. XXII.

Hen I ʃee a gallant ʃhip well rigged, Hen a ʃtorm drives me to ʃhelter me 30
Wtrimmed, tackled, mann’d and Wunder a tree, I find that if the ʃtorm
munition’d with her ʃpread ʃayles proudly be little, the tree defends me, but if the ʃtorm
5 ʃwelling with a full gale in fair weather, be great, the tree not onely not defends
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putting out of the haven into the ʃmooth me, but powreth on me that wet which it
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main , and drawing the ʃpectators’ eyes, ʃelf had received, and ʃo maketh me much 35
with a well-wiʃhing admiration, and ʃhortly wetter. Hence inʃtructed, I reʃolve that if
hear of the ʃame ʃhip ʃplitted againʃt ʃome improvidently I fall into ʃome ʃmall danger
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10 dangerous rock, or wracked by ʃome of the laws, I will preʃume to ʃeek ʃhelter
diʃaʃterous tempeʃt, or ʃunk by ʃome leake under the arms of ʃome potent friend, but if
ʃprung in her by ʃome accident, me ʃeemeth, the tempeʃt of my trouble be too potent for 40
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I ʃee the caʃe of ʃome Court-favourite , my friend I will rather bear all my ʃelf, than
who today dazeleth all mens eyes with the involve my friend in the danger. It would
15 ʃplendour of his glory, and with the proud be bad enough for me to be drencht with or
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and potent beak of his powerfull proʃperity diʃtreʃt by the ʃtorm of the laws anger only ;
cutteth the waves and ploweth through the I would be worʃe to be drowned with the 45
preʃs of the vulgar, and ʃcorneth to fear any anger of my ʃtorming friend alʃo.
croʃs winds from above, and yet to morrow
20 on ʃome ʃtormes of unexpected disfavour,
ʃprings a leak in his honour, and ʃinks in Notes:
disgrace, or daʃhed againʃt the rocks of 1 main: sea
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diʃpleaʃure is ʃplitted and wrack’d , and 2 wracked, wrack’d: wrecked
Court-favourite: a person treated with
ʃo concludes his voyage in miʃery and 3
25 misfortune. I will not therefore adventure special preference by a royal figure
with the greedy ʃhepheard to change my 4 beak: the front of a ship
ʃheep into a ʃhip of adventure, on the ʃight 5 powreth: pours
of a calm ʃea.

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