Preview: Section 16
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Start: By process and by length of certain years
Stop after: And God save all this faire company.
Years pass, mourning subsides, and Theseus summons Palamon and Emily before an Athenian council. His long formal speech begins far above their immediate sorrow, with a “first mover” who binds the elements into an ordered universe.
The argument moves through trees, stones, rivers, cities, and human lives to ask how people should meet unavoidable change. Its cosmic philosophy eventually becomes practical counsel for the two people before him.