| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: a Nutmeg, & Bess Makewater a race of Ginger; my fellow
Will & Tom hath between them sent you a dozen of points,
& good man Tolle of the Goat a pair of mittens; my self
came in person: and this is all the news.
CROMWELL.
Gramarcy, good Hodge, and thou art welcome to me,
But in as ill a time thou comest as may be:
For I am travelling into Italy.
What sayest thou, Hodge? wilt thou bear me company?
HODGE.
Will I bear thee company, Tom? What tell'st me of Italy?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: And give thy kinsman his due and the poor and the son of the road;
and waste not wastefully, for the wasteful were ever the devil's
brothers; and the devil is ever ungrateful to his Lord.
But if thou dost turn away from them to seek after mercy from thy
Lord, which thou hopest for, then speak to them an easy speech.
Make not thy hand fettered to thy neck, nor yet spread it out
quite open, lest thou shouldst have to sit down blamed and
straitened in means. Verily, thy Lord spreads out provision to
whomsoever He will or He doles it out. Verily, He is ever well aware
of and sees his servants.
And slay not your children for fear of poverty; we will provide
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: questions, and draw him on, and pick it out of him,
that, without an absurd silence, he must show an
inclination one way; or if he do not, they will
gather as much by his silence, as by his speech. As
for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they can-
not hold out long. So that no man can be secret,
except he give himself a little scope of dissimula-
tion; which is, as it were, but the skirts or train of
secrecy.
But for the third degree, which is simulation,
and false profession; that I hold more culpable,
Essays of Francis Bacon |
