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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: are stout and fast. So mighty are the blows they deal on the
shields about their necks that the lances passed clean through,
without breaking or splintering, until the cold steel reached
their flesh. Each strikes the other with such force that both
are borne to earth, and no breast-strap, girth, or stirrup could
save them from falling backward over their saddle-bow, leaving
the saddle without an occupant. The horses run riderless over
hill and dale, but they kick and bite each other, thus showing
their mortal hatred. As for the knights who fell to earth, they
leaped up as quickly as possible and drew their swords, which
were engraved with chiselled lettering. Holding their shields
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