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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: had a better head for remembering things of great need.
Here have we come away and brought never so much as a drop
of anything to drink with us. Now I would give half a hundred
pounds for somewhat to quench my thirst withal."
No sooner had the King so spoken, than out from the covert
at the roadside stepped a tall fellow with yellow beard and
hair and a pair of merry blue eyes. "Truly, holy brother,"
said he, laying his hand upon the King's bridle rein, "it were an
unchristian thing to not give fitting answer to so fair a bargain.
We keep an inn hereabouts, and for fifty pounds we will not
only give thee a good draught of wine, but will give thee
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