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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: in the hope of enriching themselves with Saracen spoil,
which they called fighting the battles of God. Richard, who was
not remarkably scrupulous in his financial operations,
was not likely to overlook the lands and castle of Locksley,
which he appropriated immediately to his own purposes, and sold
to the highest bidder. Now, as the repeal of the outlawry would
involve the restitution of the estates to the rightful owner,
it was obvious that it could never be expected from that
most legitimate and most Christian king, Richard the First
of England, the arch-crusader and anti-jacobin by excellence,--
the very type, flower, cream, pink, symbol, and mirror
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