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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: "It were too much honour for the like of me," said Dalgetty;
"your lordship shall remain under charge of mine honest friend
Ranald MacEagh; therefore, prithee let me drag you within reach
of his chain.--Honest Ranald, you see how matters stand with us.
I shall find the means, I doubt not, of setting you at freedom.
Meantime, do as you see me do; clap your hand thus on the weasand
of this high and mighty prince, under his ruff, and if he offer
to struggle or cry out, fail not, my worthy Ranald, to squeeze
doughtily; and if it be AD DELIQUIUM, Ranald, that is, till he
swoon, there is no great matter, seeing he designed your gullet
and mine to still harder usage."
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