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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: But off thou goest with us to have thy brush clipped forthwith."
At these words the poor Cobbler gazed all around him
with his great blue eyes as round as those of a dead fish,
while his mouth gaped as though he had swallowed all his words
and so lost his speech.
Robin also gaped and stared in a wondering way, just as the Cobbler
would have done in his place. "Alack-a-daisy, me," quoth he.
"I know not whether I be sitting here or in No-man's-land! What
meaneth all this stir i' th' pot, dear good gentlemen?
Surely this is a sweet, honest fellow."
" `Honest fellow,' sayst thou, clown?" quoth one of the men "Why, I
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