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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: than a griffin, more poisonous than a wyvern, and more cruel than
a lion rampant."
"Yet I doubt much," said the curate, "whether we can with
propriety ask from Sir Hugh Robsart, being in his present
condition, any deed deputing his paternal right in Mistress Amy
to whomsoever--"
"Your reverence need not doubt that," said Will Badger, who
entered as he spoke, "for I will lay my life he is another man
when he wakes than he has been these thirty days past."
"Ay, Will," said the curate, "hast thou then so much confidence
in Doctor Diddleum's draught?"
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