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: saw with Your Worship, but I thought that Your Worship knew him,
for few there be about here that pass him by and know him not."
"Now, how should I, that ne'er have squealed in your sty,
know all the swine therein? Who was he, then, an thou knowest
him so well?"
"Why, yon same is a right stout fellow whom men hereabouts do call
Robin Hood, which same--"
"Now, by'r Lady!" cried the Tinker hastily, and in a deep voice
like an angry bull, "thou didst see me come into thine inn, I,
a staunch, honest craftsman, and never told me who my company was,
well knowing thine own self who he was. Now, I have a right
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