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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: gave him hope on the one hand by indicating a spirit superior
to all disappointments, it was suspicious to him on the other,
as arising from some latent certainty of being soon united
to the earl. All these circumstances concurred to render
their songs of the vanished deer and greenwood archery and
Yoicks and Harkaway, extremely mal-a-propos, and to make
his anger boil and bubble in the cauldron of his spirit,
till its more than ordinary excitement burst forth with sudden
impulse into active manifestation.
[1] Roasting by a slow fire for the love of God.
But as it sometimes happens, from the might
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