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In any type of writing, there are three possible points of view: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, or me, you, and other. There are three periods of the English language’s history: Old, Middle, and Modern. And dramas traditionally have three parts: prot asis, epitasis, and catastrophe.

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Nine Worthies

 

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Nine worthies

Nine Worthies, nine great heroes of history (generally three biblical, three legendary and three historical).

The Nine Worthies include three good pagans: Hector, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, three good Jews: Joshua, David and Judas Maccabeus, and three good Christians: King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772–1834
  
549. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  

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Caesar, in Antony and Cleopatra

The time of universal peace is near.
Prove this a prosp'rous day,
the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.

ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Caesar, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc. 6, l. 4-6.

Anticipating peace; "Prove this" means "If this prove"; " three-nooked" means three-cornered. Continue reading Caesar, in Antony and Cleopatra