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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: was much more according to military rule that the Earl should be
married in his back and breast pieces, which dress he had seen
the bridegroom wear at the union of Prince Leo of Wittlesbach
with the youngest daughter of old George Frederick, of Saxony,
under the auspices of the gallant Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of
the North, and so forth. The good-natured young Earl laughed,
and acquiesced; and thus having secured at least one merry face
at his bridal, he put on a light and ornamented cuirass,
concealed partly by a velvet coat, and partly by a broad blue
silk scarf, which he wore over his shoulder, agreeably to his
rank, and the fashion of the times.
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