| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Might with a sally of the very town
Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot
Hath sullied all his gloss of former honor
By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:
York set him on to fight and die in shame,
That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.
CAPTAIN.
Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me
Set from our o'er-match'd forces forth for aid.
[Enter Sir William Lucy.]
SOMERSET.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: XCIII
Fear, cruelty, grief, horror, sorrow, pain,
Run through the field, disguised in divers shapes,
Death might you see triumphant on the plain,
Drowning in blood him that from blows escapes.
The king meanwhile with parcel of his train
Comes hastily out, and for sure conquest gapes,
And from a bank whereon he stood, beheld
The doubtful hazard of that bloody field.
XCIV
But when he saw the Pagans shrink away,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: foreman.
"I reckon all right. I sent Reddy for a doc, but--"
"He got off," murmured Mac pensively.
"I'll go rope another hawss," put in the man who had got off.
"Get a jump on you, then. Miss Messiter, would you like to look
over the place?"
"Not now. I want to see the men that were hurt. Perhaps I can
help them. Once I took a few weeks in nursing."
"Bully for you, ma'am," whooped Mac. "I've a notion those boys
are sufferin' for a woman to put the diamond-hitch on them
bandages."
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