| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: minute, had been arranged and fixed, and from that time judicial
combats had been regulated in accordance with its mandates.
It was in obedience to this code that Myles Falworth appeared at
the east gate of the lists (the east gate being assigned by law
to the challenger), clad in full armor of proof, attended by
Gascoyne, and accompanied by two of the young knights who had
acted as his escort from Scotland Yard.
At the barriers he was met by the attorney Willingwood, the chief
lawyer who had conducted the Falworth case before the High Court
of Chivalry, and who was to attend him during the administration
of the oaths before the King.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Why should poor beauty indirectly seek
Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
For she hath no exchequer now but his,
And proud of many, lives upon his gains.
O! him she stores, to show what wealth she had
In days long since, before these last so bad.
LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: "Then that means that you say yes, Eudora?"
For the first time Eudora gave a startled glance at him. "Didn't
you know?" she gasped.
"How should I? You had not said yes really, dear."
"Do you think," said Eudora Yates, "that I am not too proud to
allow you to ask me if my answer were not yes?"
"So that is the reason you always ran away from me, years ago, so
that I never had a chance to ask you?"
"Of course," said Eudora. "No woman of my family ever allows a
declaration which she does not intend to accept. I was always
taught that by my mother."
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