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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: the sheriff's horse. The horse reared up from the whizzing,
and lodged the sheriff in the dust; and, at the same time,
the fair Matilda favoured the knight with an arrow in his
right arm, that compelled him to withdraw from the affray.
His men lifted the sheriff carefully up, and replaced him on
his horse, whom he immediately with great rage and zeal urged
on to the assault with his fifty men at his heels, some of whom
were intercepted in their advance by the arrows of the foresters
and Matilda; while the friar, with an eight-foot staff,
dislodged the sheriff a second time, and laid on him with all
the vigour of the church militant on earth, in spite of his
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