| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,
And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embraced me,'
And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlaced me,'
As if the boy should use like loving charms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips
And with her lips on his did act the seizure
And as she fetched breath, away he skips,
And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.
Ah, that I had my lady at this bay,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: AUDLEY.
What is his mind?
DERBY.
Let's leave him to his humor.
[Exeunt.]
KING EDWARD.
Thus from the heart's aboundance speaks the tongue;
Countess for Emperour: and indeed, why not?
She is as imperator over me
And I to her
Am as a kneeling vassal, that observes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: "I could," said Sir Duncan, his voice struggling between the
emotions of doubt, hatred, and anxiety--"I could--but that I know
thy race are like the Great Enemy, liars and murderers from the
beginning--but could it be true thou tellest me, I could almost
forgive thee the injuries thou hast done me."
"Hear it!" said Ranald; "he hath wagered deeply for a son of
Diarmid--And you, gentle Thane--the report of the camp says, that
you would purchase with life and lands the tidings that Annot
Lyle was no daughter of proscription, but of a race noble in your
estimation as your own--Well--It is for no love I tell you--The
time has been that I would have exchanged this secret against
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