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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: "Who is your master?" said the knight; "and where does he abide?"
"My master," said the youth, "is called Robin Hood, and he abides hard by."
"And what knows he of me?" said the knight.
"He knows you," answered the youth "as he does every way-faring
knight and friar, by instinct."
"Gramercy," said the knight; "then I understand his bidding:
but how if I say I will not come?"
"I am enjoined to bring you," said the youth. "If persuasion avail not,
I must use other argument."
"Say'st thou so?" said the knight; "I doubt if thy stripling rhetoric
would convince me."
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