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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Varney up with you, and if he can urge you to the ascent he means
to profit by, believe me he will spare neither whip nor spur, and
for you, my pretty lady, that would be Countess outright, you
were best not thwart my courses, lest you are called to an old
reckoning on a new score. 'Thou shalt be master,' did he say?
By my faith, he may find that he spoke truer than he is aware of;
and thus he who, in the estimation of so many wise-judging men,
can match Burleigh and Walsingham in policy, and Sussex in war,
becomes pupil to his own menial--and all for a hazel eye and a
little cunning red and white, and so falls ambition. And yet if
the charms of mortal woman could excuse a man's politic pate for
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