| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Pardon if we omit all Wolsey's life,
Because our play depends on Cromwell's death.
Now sit and see his highest state of all;
His haight of rising and his sudden fall.
Pardon the errors is all ready past,
And live in hope the best doth come at last:
My hope upon your favour doth depend,
And look to have your liking ere the end.
[Exit.]
ACT IV. SCENE I. The same. A public walk.
[Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, The Dukes
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:
husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for
he loved husbandry.
CH2 26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of
Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one
of the king's captains.
CH2 26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty
men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
CH2 26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: his confusion.
The spot was pleasant enough; for the land breeze, blowing strong
and full, set the leaves of the palm tree above his head to
rattling and clattering continually against the sky, where, the
moon then being about full, they shone every now and then like
blades of steel. The waves also were splashing up against the
little landing place at the foot of the garden, sounding very
cool in the night, and sparkling all over the harbor where the
moon caught the edges of the water. A great many vessels were
lying at anchor in their ridings, with the dark, prodigious form
of a man-of-war looming up above them in the moonlight.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
