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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: that, amidst the extreme delight with which men haunt the play-
houses, and in especial their eager desire for seeing the
exhibitions of one Will Shakespeare (whom I think, my lords, we
have all heard something of), the manly amusement of bear-baiting
is falling into comparative neglect, since men will rather throng
to see these roguish players kill each other in jest, than to see
our royal dogs and bears worry each other in bloody earnest.--
What say you to this, my Lord of Sussex?"
"Why, truly, gracious madam," said Sussex, "you must expect
little from an old soldier like me in favour of battles in sport,
when they are compared with battles in earnest; and yet, by my
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