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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: The sheriff then proceeded to relate to his companion the adventure
of the abbot of Doubleflask (which some grave historians have
related of the abbot of Saint Mary's, and others of the bishop
of Hereford): how the abbot, returning to his abbey in company
with his high selerer, who carried in his portmanteau the rents
of the abbey-lands, and with a numerous train of attendants,
came upon four seeming peasants, who were roasting the king's
venison by the king's highway: how, in just indignation at
this flagrant infringement of the forest laws, he asked them
what they meant, and they answered that they meant to dine:
how he ordered them to be seized and bound, and led captive
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