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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Myles, as he listened intently, could not but confess in his own
mind that the King had many rational, perhaps just, grounds for
grievance against such an ardent opponent as the blind Lord had
shown himself to be. "But, sir," said he, after a little space of
silence, when Prior Edward had ended, "to hold enmity and to
breed treason are very different matters. Haply my father was
Bolingbroke's enemy, but, sure, thou dost not believe he is
justly and rightfully tainted with treason?"
"Nay," answered the priest, "how canst thou ask me such a thing?
Did I believe thy father a traitor, thinkest thou I would thus
tell his son thereof? Nay, Myles, I do know thy father well, and
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