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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: I much doubt if this outlawed earl, this forester Robin,
be not the man they call Robin Hood, who has quartered
himself in Sherwood Forest, and whom in endeavouring
to apprehend I have fallen divers times into disasters.
He has gotten together a band of disinherited prodigals,
outlawed debtors, excommunicated heretics, elder sons that
have spent all they had, and younger sons that never had any
thing to spend; and with these he kills the king's deer,
and plunders wealthy travellers of five-sixths of their money;
but if they be abbots or bishops, them he despoils utterly."
The sheriff then proceeded to relate to his companion the adventure
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