| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: SIR BENJAMIN. I tell you I have it from one----
MRS. CANDOUR. And I have it from one----
SIR BENJAMIN. Who had it from one who had it----
MRS. CANDOUR. From one immediately--but here comes Lady Sneerwell--
perhaps she knows the whole affair.
Enter LADY SNEERWELL
LADY SNEERWELL. So--my dear Mrs. Candour Here's a sad affair
of our Friend Teazle----
MRS. CANDOUR. Aye my dear Friend, who could have thought it.
LADY SNEERWELL. Well there is no trusting to appearances[;] tho'--
indeed she was always too lively for me.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: dispersed in different directions outside the Hellespont, to collect
money; while Thrasylus, one of the generals, sailed to Athens to
report what had happened, and to beg for a reinforcement of troops and
ships. After the above incidents, Tissaphernes arrived in the
Hellespont, and received a visit from Alcibiades, who presented him
with a single ship, bringing with him tokens of friendship and gifts,
whereupon Tissaphernes seized him and shut him up in Sardis, giving
out that the king's orders were to go to war with the Athenians.
Thirty days later Alcibiades, accompanied by Mantitheus, who had been
captured in Caria, managed to procure horses and escaped by night to
Clazomenae.
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