| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: Thou pratest of forgiveness.
GUIDO
No! revenge:
The right revenge my father's son should take.
MORANZONE
You are a coward,
Take out the knife, get to the Duke's chamber,
And bring me back his heart upon the blade.
When he is dead, then you can talk to me
Of noble vengeances.
GUIDO
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: whole weight of the world's misery without blenching. There is a
laugh always ready to avenge its tears of discouragement. In the
lines which Mr Harris quotes only to declare that he can make nothing
of them, and to condemn them as out of character, Richard III,
immediately after pitying himself because
There is no creature loves me
And if I die no soul will pity me,
adds, with a grin,
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity for myself?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: saw that it was a blunted gray goose shaft, with a fine scroll,
about the thickness of a goose quill, tied near to its head.
The Sheriff opened the scroll and glanced at it, while the veins upon
his forehead swelled and his cheeks grew ruddy with rage as he read,
for this was what he saw:
"_Now Heaven bless Thy Grace this day
Say all in sweet Sherwood
For thou didst give the prize away
To merry Robin Hood_."
"Whence came this?" cried the Sheriff in a mighty voice.
"Even through the window, Your Worship," quoth the man who had handed
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
