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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: and sound at home in Emmet Priory. "Now," quoth Robin to himself,
"I wonder how this thing hath dropped into my bed during the night."
So saying, he arose softly, so as not to waken the other, and looking
about the room he espied the friar's clothes lying upon a bench near
the wall. First he looked at the clothes, with his head on one side,
and then he looked at the friar and slowly winked one eye.
Quoth he, "Good Brother What-e'er-thy-name-may-be, as thou hast
borrowed my bed so freely I'll e'en borrow thy clothes in return."
So saying, he straightway donned the holy man's garb, but kindly left
the cobbler's clothes in the place of it. Then he went forth into
the freshness of the morning, and the stableman that was up and about
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