The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the excitement. Now that she is here, my whole heart yearns
toward her. Yet, when I look into her eyes, a sort of blank
hopelessness comes over me. They seem like the eyes of some
untamable creature whose language I shall never learn. Philip,
you are older and wiser than I, and have shown already that you
understand her. Tell me what I can do to make her love me?"
"Tell me how any one could help it?" said Malbone, looking
fondly on the sweet, pleading face before him.
"I am beginning to fear that it can be helped," she said. Her
thoughts were still with Emilia.
"Perhaps it can," said Phil, "if you sit so far away from
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: Of maidens patience. Hast thou slaine him then?
Henceforth be neuer numbred among men.
Oh, once tell true, euen for my sake,
Durst thou a lookt vpon him, being awake?
And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O braue tutch:
Could not a worme, an Adder do so much?
An Adder did it: for with doubler tongue
Then thine (thou serpent) neuer Adder stung
Dem. You spend your passion on a mispris'd mood,
I am not guiltie of Lysanders blood:
Nor is he dead for ought that I can tell
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