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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: two dipped a handful of water out from the bath, and poured it
upon his head, at the same time signing his left shoulder with
the sign of the cross.
As soon as this ceremony was concluded, the two squires of honor
helped their charge from the bath, and conducted him to a plain
bed without hangings, where they let him rest until his body was
warm and dry. Then they clad him in a white linen shirt, and over
it a plain robe of russet, "girdled about the loins with a rope,
and having a hood like unto a hermit."
As soon as the candidate had arisen, the two "ancient knights"
returned, and all being in readiness he was escorted to the
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