| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: habit of hunting foxes. Nothing is so ruinous; and just at the moment
when you want them, they will not be forthcoming. On the other hand,
vary the hunting-ground in taking them out; which will give the pack a
wider experience in hunting and their master a better knowledge of the
country. The start should be early in the morning, unless the scent is
to fail the hounds entirely.[7] The dilatory sportsman robs the pack
of finding and himself of profit.[8] Subtle and delicate by nature,
scent will not last all day.
[5] "You cannot trust the hound's nose."
[6] "Every third day," {dia trites tes emeras}.
[7] Lit. "in order that they may not be deprived of following up the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
III.
Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,
'Gainst whom the world could not hold argument.
Persuade my heart to this false perjury?
Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.
A woman I forswore; but I will prove,
Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:
My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love:
Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.
My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: staff, one of the two favourite weapons of the Tahitian
brave; the javelin, or casting spear, was the other.
Note 9, "THE RIBBON OF LIGHT." Still to be seen (and heard)
spinning from one marae to another on Tahiti; or so I have it
upon evidence that would rejoice the Psychical Society.
Note 10, "NAMUNU-URA." The complete name is Namunu-ura te
aropa. Why it should be pronounced Namunu, dactyllically, I
cannot see, but so I have always heard it. This was the clan
immediately beyond the Tevas on the south coast of the
island. At the date of the tale the clan organisation must
have been very weak. There is no particular mention of
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