| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: followed by Dimple and Charlotte.]
MARIA
Now, pray, don't betray me to your brother.
CHARLOTTE
[Just as she sees him make a motion to take his
leave.] One word with you, brother, if you please.
[Follows them out.
Manent, DIMPLE and LETITIA.
DIMPLE
You received the billet I sent you, I presume?
LETITIA
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: To Ceres, which is the goddesse
Of corn, hath schape him forto yive,
To loke if it mai be foryive, 4290
The meschief which was in his lond.
Bot sche, which knew tofor the hond
The circumstance of al this thing,
Ayein the cominge of the king
Into the temple, hath schape so,
Of hire acord that alle tho
Whiche of the temple prestes were
Have seid and full declared there
Confessio Amantis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: do not wish to be godly. But the others, who are not such callous and
wicked people, and desire to be godly, must not absent themselves, even
though otherwise they be feeble and full of infirmities, as St. Hilary
also has said: If any one have not committed sin for which he can
rightly be put out of the congregation and esteemed as no Christian, he
ought not stay away from the Sacrament, lest he may deprive himself of
life. For no one will make such progress that he will not retain many
daily infirmities in flesh and blood.
Therefore such people must learn that it is the highest art to know
that our Sacrament does not depend upon our worthiness. For we are not
baptized because we are worthy and holy, nor do we go to confession
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