| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: So miht thou gete love algate
And sette thee, my Sone, in reste,
For thou schalt finde it for the beste. 950
And over this, so as I dar,
I rede that thou be riht war
Of othre mennes hate aboute,
Which every wysman scholde doute:
For Hate is evere upon await,
And as the fisshere on his bait
Sleth, whan he seth the fisshes faste,
So, whan he seth time ate laste,
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: way questioningly. Evidently one must state one's business
to this person before going farther. Barney, without any
loss of time or composure, stepped up to the guard.
"Has General Kampf passed in this morning?" he asked
blithely. Barney had never heard of any "General Kampf,"
nor had the sentry, since there was no such person in the
Austrian army. But he did know, however, that there were
altogether too many generals for any one soldier to know
the names of them all.
"I do not know the general by sight," replied the sentry.
Here was a pretty mess, indeed. Doubtless the sergeant
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: I see one eye of yours conceives a teare
The which it will deliver. [Florish.]
EMILIA.
Is this wynning?
Oh all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?
But that your wils have saide it must be so,
And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,
This miserable Prince, that cuts away
A life more worthy from him then all women,
I should, and would, die too.
HIPPOLITA.
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