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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: 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.
But the affair at Gamwell feast threw many additional
difficulties in the way of the accomplishment of this hope;
and very shortly afterwards King Henry the Second went to make
up in the next world his quarrel with Thomas-a-Becket;
and Richard Coeur de Lion made all England resound with
preparations for the crusade, to the great delight of many
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