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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: in the early part of May, and Myles had been a member of the
Prince's household for a little over a month. One morning he was
ordered to attend the Prince in his privy cabinet, and, obeying
the summons, he found the Prince, his younger brother, the Duke
of Bedford, and his uncle, the Bishop of Winchester, seated at a
table, where they had just been refreshing themselves with a
flagon of wine and a plate of wafers.
"My poor Myles," said the Prince, smiling, as the young knight
bowed to the three, and then stood erect, as though on duty. "It
shames my heart, brother--and thou, uncle--it shames my heart to
be one privy to this thing which we are set upon to do. Here be
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