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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: send in search of him than she who yesterday performed her
errand. So, straightway calling her, she said to her: "Damsel,
go and mount your palfrey! I send you to the same knight as I
sent you yesterday, and do you seek him until you find him. Do
not delay for any cause, and tell him again to do his `worst'.
And when you have given him this message, mark well what reply he
makes." The damsel makes no delay, for she had carefully noticed
the direction he took the night before, knowing well that she
would be sent to him again. She made her way through the ranks
until she saw the knight, whom she instructs at once to do his
"worst" again, if he desires the love and favour of the Queen
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