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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: "How many do ye count?" asked Gloucester.
"They number not two thousand," Dick replied.
"I have seven hundred in the woods behind us," said the duke;
"seven hundred follow from Kettley, and will be here anon; behind
these, and further, are four hundred more; and my Lord Foxham hath
five hundred half a day from here, at Holywood. Shall we attend
their coming, or fall on?"
"My lord," said Dick, "when ye hanged these five poor rogues ye did
decide the question. Churls although they were, in these uneasy,
times they will be lacked and looked for, and the alarm be given.
Therefore, my lord, if ye do count upon the advantage of a
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