| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise.
WARWICK.
What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?
CLARENCE.
That he consents if Warwick yield consent,
For on thy fortune I repose myself.
WARWICK.
Why, then, though loath, yet I must be content.
We'll yoke together, like a double shadow
To Henry's body, and supply his place,--
I mean in bearing weight of government
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: in vain." Then he, who felt no fear at all, thus replies with
confidence: "I am he who intends to cross the bridge." "Thou?
Thou? How didst thou dare to think of such a thing? Before
undertaking such a course, thou oughtest to have thought of the
end that is in store for thee, and thou oughtest to have in mind
the memory of the cart on which thou didst ride. I know not
whether thou feelest shame for the ride thou hadst on it, but no
sensible man would have embarked on such an enterprise as this if
he had felt the reproach of his action."
(Vv. 2615-2690.) Not a word does he deign to reply to what he
hears the other say; but the master of the house and all the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Was non of hem that he ne hath
A pot of erthe, in which he tath
A lyht brennende in a kressette,
And ech of hem ek a trompette
Bar in his other hond beside;
And thus upon the nyhtes tyde
Duk Gedeon, whan it was derk,
Ordeineth him unto his werk,
And parteth thanne his folk in thre,
And chargeth hem that thei ne fle, 3750
And tawhte hem hou they scholde ascrie
Confessio Amantis |
