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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Yet thou art wise in seeming to refuse it.
GARDINER.
Here's honors, titles, and promotions:
I fear this climbing will have a sudden fall.
NORFOLK.
Then come, my Lords; let's altogether bring
This new made Counselor to England's King.
[Exit all but Gardiner.]
GARDINER.
But Gardiner means his glory shall be dimmed.
Shall Cromwell live a greater man than I?
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