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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: remote districts of our kingdom, were wont to mingle in the
conversation, and to tell news that had been gathered in foreign
lands, or preserved from oblivion in this our own.
Now I chanced to have contracted for teaching the lower classes
with a young person called Peter, or Patrick, Pattieson, who had
been educated for our Holy Kirk, yea, had, by the license of
presbytery, his voice opened therein as a preacher, who delighted
in the collection of olden tales and legends, and in garnishing
them with the flowers of poesy, whereof he was a vain and
frivolous professor. For he followed not the example of those
strong poets whom I preposed to him as a pattern, but formed
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