The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: BUCKINGHAM. And is it thus? Repays he my deep service
With such contempt? Made I him King for this?
O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone
To Brecknock while my fearful head is on! Exit
SCENE 3.
London. The palace
Enter TYRREL
TYRREL. The tyrannous and bloody act is done,
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of.
Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn
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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 Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: at the mouth of Patapedia. He came to the fly just at dusk, rising
very softly and quietly, as if he did not really care for it but
only wanted to see what it was like. He went down at once into
deep water, and began the most dangerous and exasperating of all
salmon-tactics, moving around in slow circles and shaking his head
from side to side, with sullen pertinacity. This is called
"jigging," and unless it can be stopped, the result is fatal.
I could not stop it. That salmon was determined to jig. He knew
more than I did.
The canoe followed him down the pool. He jigged away past all
three of the inlets of the Patapedia, and at last, in the still,
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