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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: pined in the monotonous inaction to which she was condemned.
While she could freely range the forest with her lover in
the morning, she had been content to return to her father's
castle in the evening, thus preserving underanged the balance
of her duties, habits, and affections; not without a hope that
the repeal of her lover's outlawry might be eventually obtained,
by a judicious distribution of some of his forest spoils among
the holy fathers and saints that-were-to-be,--pious proficients
in the ecclesiastic art equestrian, who rode the conscience
of King Henry with double-curb bridles, and kept it well in hand
when it showed mettle and seemed inclined to rear and plunge.
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