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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: sights may be somewhat appeased by the knowledge that infuriated
bulls occasionally tossed the torn and bleeding carcases of their
tormentors into the faces and laps of spectators. Pepys
frequently speaks of dense crowds which assembled to witness this
form of cruelty, which he designates as good sport; and Evelyn
speaks of a gallant steed that, under the pretence that he had
killed a man, was baited by dogs, but fought so hard for his life
"the fiercest of them could not fasten on him till he was run
through with swords." Not only bull and bear baiting, cock and
dog fighting were encouraged, but prize combats between man and
man were regarded as sources of great diversion. Pepys gives a
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