| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
 Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: fool and a knave, you shall eat: go to; follow.
PAROLLES.
I praise God for you.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE 3. The same. A room in the COUNTESS'S palace.
[Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, Lords, Gentlemen, Guards,
&c.]
KING.
We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem
Was made much poorer by it: but your son,
As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan: came to the Door with him.
SURFACE. Pshaw!--Blockhead to suppose that I should now be in
a Temper to receive visits from poor Relations!--well why don't
you show the Fellow up?
SERVANT. I will--Sir--Why, Sir--it was not my Fault that Sir Peter
discover'd my Lady----
SURFACE. Go, fool!--
[Exit SERVANT.]
Sure Fortune never play'd a man of my policy such a Trick before--
my character with Sir Peter!--my Hopes with Maria!--destroy'd in
a moment!--I'm in a rare Humour to listen to other People's
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