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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Is he?" said Goldthred.
"Is he?" replied the host; "ay, by cock and pie is he--the very
pedlar he who raddled Robin Hood so tightly, as the song says,--
'Now Robin Hood drew his sword so good,
The pedlar drew his brand,
And he hath raddled him, Robin Hood,
Till he neither could see nor stand.'"
"Hang him, foul scroyle, let him pass," said the mercer; "if he
be such a one, there were small worship to be won upon him.--And
now tell me, Mike--my honest Mike, how wears the Hollands you won
of me?"
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