The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: more of these follies than needs must."
"Nay, I understand nought about it," said Blount; "but here are
your honourable lordship's brave kinsmen and friends coming in by
scores to wait upon you to court, where, methinks, we shall bear
as brave a front as Leicester, let him ruffle it as he will."
"Give them the strictest charges," said Sussex, "that they suffer
no provocation short of actual violence to provoke them into
quarrel. They have hot bloods, and I would not give Leicester
the advantage over me by any imprudence of theirs."
The Earl of Sussex ran so hastily through these directions, that
it was with difficulty Tressilian at length found opportunity to
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