| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: CADE.
Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?
DICK.
Here, sir.
CADE.
They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou
behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own
slaughter-house; therefore thus will I reward thee:
the Lent shall be as long again as it is, and thou
shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking one.
DICK.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: to satisfy their wants. What of those therefore who are able, not only
to administer their own estates, but even to create a surplus
sufficient to adorn their city and relieve the burthen of their
friends? Well may we regard such people as men of substance and
capacity. But stay (I added), most of us are competent to sing the
praises of such heroes. What I desire is to hear from you,
Ischomachus, in your own order,[7] first how you study to preserve
your health and strength of body; and next, how it is granted to
you[8] to escape from the perils of war with honour untarnished. And
after that (I added), it will much content me to learn from your own
lips about your money-making.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: with another, of forty sous /Parisis/ each, an exorbitant sum, that
was however justified by the luxury Tirechair had lavished on their
adornment. Flanders tapestry hung on the walls, and a large bed with a
top valance of green serge, like a peasant's bed, was amply furnished
with mattresses, and covered with good sheets of fine linen. Each room
had a stove called a /chauffe-doux/; the floor, carefully polished by
Dame Tirechair's apprentices, shone like the woodwork of a shrine.
Instead of stools, the lodgers had deep chairs of carved walnut, the
spoils probably of some raided castle. Two chests with pewter
mouldings, and tables on twisted legs, completed the fittings, worthy
of the most fastidious knights-banneret whom business might bring to
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