| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: hard cupboard!
THE Mouse watches Miss
Moppet from the top of
the cupboard.
MISS MOPPET ties up
her head in a duster,
and sits before the fire.
THE Mouse thinks she is
looking very ill. He
comes sliding down the bell-
pull.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: incertis rumoribus serviant et pleri ad voluntatem eorum ficta
respondeant.
Qua consuetudine cognita Caesar, ne graviori bello, occurreret,
maturius quam consuerat ad exercitum proficiscitur. Eo cum venisset, ea
quas fore suspicatus erat facta cognovit: missas legationes ab non nullis
civitatibus ad Germanos invitatos eos uti ab Rheno discederent: omnia
quae[que] postulassent ab se fore parata. Qua spe adducti Germani latius
iam vagabantur et in fines Eburonum et Condrusorum, qui sunt Treverorum
clientes, pervenerant. Principibus Gallice evocatis Caesar ea quae
cognoverat dissimulanda sibi existimavit, eorumque animis permulsis et
confirmatis equitatu imperato bellum cum Germanis gerere constituit.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: From what is past: the help that thou shalt lend me
Comes all too late, yet let the traitor die;
For sparing justice feeds iniquity.
'But ere I name him, you fair lords,' quoth she,
(Speaking to those that came with Collatine)
'Shall plight your honourable faiths to me,
With swift pursuit to venge this wrong of mine;
For 'tis a meritorious fair design
To chase injustice with revengeful arms:
Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.'
At this request, with noble disposition
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