Today's Stichomancy for Charlie Chaplin

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare:

Alive he wins me not; then, tis no conquest dead.

[Enter Cromwell like a Neopolitan, and Hodge with him.]

CROMWELL. Sir, are you the master of the house?

HOST. I am, sir.

CROMWELL. By this same token you must leave this place, And leave none but the Earl and I together, And this my Peasant here to tend on us.

HOST.