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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: the strength which he was unable to resist; "methinks a coif
would become thy lowering features as well as a child's biggin
would beseem mine. We should be a babe and nurse to frighten
girls with."
"We have frightened men in our time, my liege," said De Vaux;
"and, I trust, may live to frighten them again. What is a fever-
fit, that we should not endure it patiently, in order to get rid
of it easily?"
"Fever-fit!" exclaimed Richard impetuously; "thou mayest think,
and justly, that it is a fever-fit with me; but what is it with
all the other Christian princes--with Philip of France, with that
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