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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Winchester, is awaiting my coming upon the business you wot of.
Haply your Highness will find more joyance in a lusty young
knight like Sir Myles than in an old fox like myself. So I leave
him with you, in your good care."
Such was Myles's introduction to the wild young madcap Prince of
Wales, afterwards the famous Henry V, the conqueror of France.
For a month or more thereafter he was a member of the princely
household, and, after a little while, a trusted and honored
member. Perhaps it was the calm sturdy strength, the courage of
the young knight, that first appealed to the Prince's royal
heart; perhaps afterwards it was the more sterling qualities that
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