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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: 'The two great barons behind said nothing. This teaching was
clean against their stomachs, for when the King's peace ends, the
great barons go to war and increase their lands. At that instant we
heard Rahere's voice returning, in a scurril Saxon rhyme against
William of Exeter:
'"Well wist Wal-wist where lay his fortune
When that he fawned on the King for his crozier,"
and amid our laughter he burst in, with one arm round Hugh, and
one round the old pilgrim of Netherfield.
'"Here is your knight, Brother," said he, "and for the better
disport of the company, here is my fool. Hold up, Saxon Samson,
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