The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: tool in your desperate enterprise, by holding out hopes and
expectations which you are resolved never to realize."
"Sir Frederick, I protest, by all that is sacred--"
"I will listen to no protestations; I have been cheated with them
too long," answered Sir Frederick.
"If you leave us," said Ellieslaw, "you cannot but know both your
ruin and ours is certain; all depends on our adhering together."
"Leave me to take care of myself," returned the knight; "but were
what you say true, I would rather perish than be fooled any
farther."
"Can nothing--no surety convince you of my sincerity?" said
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:
Her audit (though delayed) answered must be,
And her quietus is to render thee.
CXXVII
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