| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: MOUSE.
Nay, that emet that I saw was bigger than thou art.
ROMBELO.
Bigger than I? what a fool have you to your man:
I pray you, master, turn him away.
SEGASTO.
But dost thou hear? was he not a man?
MOUSE.
I think he was, for he said he did lead a saltseller
life about the woods.
SEGASTO.
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: his merciless satire, as Cervantes demolished chivalry by a narrative
comedy.
To understand this amazing period and the spirit which dictated its
voluminous, though now forgotten, masterpieces, to analyze it, even to
its barbarisms, we need only examine the Constitutions of the
University of Paris and the extraordinary scheme of instruction that
then obtained. Theology was taught under two faculties--that of
Theology properly so called, and that of Canon Law. The faculty of
Theology, again, had three sections--Scholastic, Canonical, and
Mystic. It would be wearisome to give an account of the attributes of
each section of the science, since one only, namely, Mystic, is the
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