The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: beg pardon--The fits of morbid sensibility which had tormented
this unfortunate gentleman, were rendered henceforth more acute
by remorse, which he, of all men, was least capable of having
incurred, or of sustaining when it became his unhappy lot. His
paroxysms of agony could not be concealed from the lady to whom
he was betrothed; and it must be confessed they were of an
alarming and fearful nature. He comforted himself, that, at the
expiry of his imprisonment, he could form with his wife and
friend a society, encircled by which he might dispense with more
extensive communication with the world. He was deceived; before
that term elapsed, his friend and his betrothed bride were man
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Pray you, a heifer for your reader feed!"
MENALCAS
"Pollio himself too doth new verses make:
Feed ye a bull now ripe to butt with horn,
And scatter with his hooves the flying sand."
DAMOETAS
"Who loves thee, Pollio, may he thither come
Where thee he joys beholding; ay, for him
Let honey flow, the thorn-bush spices bear."
MENALCAS
"Who hates not Bavius, let him also love
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: And all's made up againe.
3. COUNTREYMAN
I, doe but put a feskue in her fist, and you shall see her
Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench.
Doe we all hold against the Maying?
4. COUNTREYMAN
Hold? what should aile us?
3. COUNTREYMAN
Arcas will be there.
2. COUNTREYMAN
And Sennois.
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