The phrase from Shakespeare, " Hear the words of a trembling parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the cold and silent grave, from whence no traveller can return," are to be found unaltered, spoken by Lehi several thousand years ago. Not even the most partisan Mormon will attempt to suggest that Shakespeare could have read the gold plates. On page 347 of the Book of Mormon, again, it is suggested that the mariner's compass was in use many hundreds of years before it was invented. At the very beginning of the Book of Mormon it is stated that a man named Laban was killed by Nephi, who wielded a sword " of the most precious steel," But steel was not known to man in those days.