| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: Tell me. Myn holi fader, no:
For delicat in such a wise
Of love, as ye to me devise, 690
Ne was I nevere yit gultif;
For if I hadde such a wif
As ye speke of, what scholde I more?
For thanne I wolde neveremore
For lust of eny wommanhiede
Myn herte upon non other fiede:
And if I dede, it were a wast.
Bot al withoute such repast
Confessio Amantis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: in Lent; and a cat-and-dog life she led with Tony, as men said.
But she is dead, rest be with her! and Tony hath but a slip of a
daughter; so it is thought he means to wed this stranger, that
men keep such a coil about."
"And why so?--I mean, why do they keep a coil about her?" said
Tressilian.
"Why, I wot not," answered the host, "except that men say she is
as beautiful as an angel, and no one knows whence she comes, and
every one wishes to know why she is kept so closely mewed up.
For my part, I never saw her--you have, I think, Master
Goldthred?"
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: especially as the buck had rolled right against the after-part of the
waggon, so I had only to gut him, fix a reim round his legs, and haul
him up. By the time I had done this the sun was down, and the full moon
was up, and a beautiful moon it was. And then there came that wonderful
hush which sometimes falls over the African bush in the early hours of
the night. No beast was moving, and no bird called. Not a breath of
air stirred the quiet trees, and the shadows did not even quiver, they
only grew. It was very oppressive and very lonely, for there was not a
sign of the cattle or the boys. I was quite thankful for the society of
old Kaptein, who was lying down contentedly against the disselboom,
chewing the cud with a good conscience.
Long Odds |
