| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,
Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be:
Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
That she that makes me sin awards me pain.
CXLII
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: full of other palaces. And in the garden of the great palace there
is a great hill, upon the which there is another palace; and it is
the most fair and the most rich that any man may devise. And all
about the palace and the hill be many trees bearing many diverse
fruits. And all about that hill be ditches great and deep, and
beside them be great vivaries on that one part and on that other.
And there is a full fair bridge to pass over the ditches. And in
these vivaries be so many wild geese and ganders and wild ducks and
swans and herons that it is without number. And all about these
ditches and vivaries is the great garden full of wild beasts. So
that when the great Chan will have any disport on that, to take any
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Before the wound do grow uncurable;
For, being green, there is great hope of help.
CARDINAL.
A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!
What council give you in this weighty cause?
YORK.
That Somerset be sent as regent thither.
'T is meet that lucky ruler be employ'd;
Witness the fortune he hath had in France.
SOMERSET.
If York, with all his far-fet policy,
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