| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: This. You must say, Paragon. A Paramour is (God
blesse vs) a thing of nought.
Enter Snug the Ioyner.
Snug. Masters, the Duke is comming from the Temple,
and there is two or three Lords & Ladies more married.
If our sport had gone forward, we had all bin made
men
This. O sweet bully Bottome: thus hath he lost sixepence
a day, during his life; he could not haue scaped sixpence
a day. And the Duke had not giuen him sixpence
a day for playing Piramus, Ile be hang'd. He would haue
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: '. . . I'll tell you to-morrow the other facts gathered from
newspapers and papa. . . . Tonight I have given you what I have
seen with my own eyes an hour ago, and began trembling with
excitement and fear. If I have been too long on this one subject,
it is because it is yet before my eyes.
'Monday, 24.
'It was that fire raised the people. There was fighting all
through the night in the Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, on the
Boulevards where they had been shot at, and at the Porte St. Denis.
At ten o'clock, they resigned the house of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs (where the disastrous volley was fired) to the people, who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: was allowed a little room to herself; and amongst
other pieces of furniture which I had made in my
overtime, was a chest of drawers; so when I took
the articles home, she locked them up carefully in
these drawers. No one about the premises knew
that she had anything of the kind. So when we
fancied we had everything ready the time was
fixed for the flight. But we knew it would not do
to start off without first getting our master's con-
sent to be away for a few days. Had we left with-
out this, they would soon have had us back into
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