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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "You incite me," said Sir Ralph, "to view her more nearly.
That madcap earl found me other employment than to remark her
in the chapel."
"The earl is a worthy peer," said brother Michael; "he is worth
any fourteen earls on this side Trent, and any seven on the other."
(The reader will please to remember that Rubygill Abbey was
north of Trent.)
"His mettle will be tried," said Sir Ralph. "There is many a courtier
will swear to King Henry to bring him in dead or alive."
"They must look to the brambles then," said brother Michael.
"The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble,
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