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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: He has gotten together a band of disinherited prodigals,
outlawed debtors, excommunicated heretics, elder sons that
have spent all they had, and younger sons that never had any
thing to spend; and with these he kills the king's deer,
and plunders wealthy travellers of five-sixths of their money;
but if they be abbots or bishops, them he despoils utterly."
The sheriff then proceeded to relate to his companion the adventure
of the abbot of Doubleflask (which some grave historians have
related of the abbot of Saint Mary's, and others of the bishop
of Hereford): how the abbot, returning to his abbey in company
with his high selerer, who carried in his portmanteau the rents
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