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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: singing of a new ballad, to wit, Lord Dorset's famous song, "To
all ye ladies now on land." Not far distant, its face turned to
the Strand, was the stately residence of the Duke of Bedford, a
large dark building, fronted by a great courtyard, and backed by
spacious gardens enclosed by red-brick walls. Likewise in the
Strand stood Arundel House, the residence of Henry Frederick
Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, and Earl Marshal of England;
Hatfield House, built by Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, as a
town residence for himself and his heirs lawfully begotten; York
House, richly adorned with the arms of Villiers and Manners--one
gloomy chamber of which was shown as that wherein its late noble
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