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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: "Passing loyal," said young Gamwell.
"If I should call on them in the king's name," said Sir Ralph,
"think you they would aid and assist?"
"Most likely they would," said young Gamwell, "one side or the other."
"Ay, but which side?" said the knight.
"That remains to be tried," said young Gamwell.
"I have King Henry's commission," said the knight, "to apprehend this
earl that was. How would you advise me to act, being, as you see,
without attendant force?"
"I would advise you," said young Gamwell, "to take yourself off without delay,
unless you would relish the taste of a volley of arrows, a shower of stones,
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