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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: that."
The old man's eyes flashed up in triumph.
"Knowed? Iss, and you may well say that! Look ye here! Look to
mun!" and he waved his hand round--"There's captains! and I'm the
father of 'em all now, now poor Captain Will's in gloory; I, Martin
Cockrem! . . . Iss, I've seen a change. I mind when Tavistock
Abbey was so full o' friars, and goolden idols, and sich noxious
trade, as ever was a wheat-rick of rats. I mind the fight off
Brest in the French wars--Oh, that was a fight, surely!--when the
Regent and the French Carack were burnt side by side, being fast
grappled, you see, because of Sir Thomas Knivet; and Captain Will
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