| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Lear by William Shakespeare: Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow
Your needful counsel to our business,
Which craves the instant use.
Glou. I serve you, madam.
Your Graces are right welcome.
Exeunt. Flourish.
Scene II.
Before Gloucester's Castle.
Enter Kent and [Oswald the] Steward, severally.
Osw. Good dawning to thee, friend. Art of this house?
Kent. Ay.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: subject; yet the tale is so strange and mixed, and the people so
oddly charactered - above all, the whites - and the high note of
the hurricane and the warships is so well prepared to take popular
interest, and the latter part is so directly in the day's movement,
that I am not without hope but some may read it; and if they don't,
a murrain on them! Here is, for the first time, a tale of Greeks -
Homeric Greeks - mingled with moderns, and all true; Odysseus
alongside of Rajah Brooke, PROPORTION GARDEE; and all true. Here
is for the first time since the Greeks (that I remember) the
history of a handful of men, where all know each other in the eyes,
and live close in a few acres, narrated at length, and with the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: finds.
BERTRAM.
Damnable! both sides rogue!
FIRST SOLDIER.
[Reads.]
'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it:
After he scores, he never pays the score;
Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;
He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;
And say a soldier, 'Dian,' told thee this:
Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss;
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