Beware the seduction of ultimate power - megalomania will bring about your own downfall.

The blades are engraved with "1606", the year that Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, a bloody tragedy of the brave Scottish leader driven by ruthless ambition to regicide, murder and tyranny.

A pair of small, antique pewter daggers with a small, black cabochon on each hilt and engraved blades; on surgical steel ear-wires.