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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Since, however, it lay with him to be spokesman, he had to state
to the Chiefs assembled, that those who wished to throw off the
base yoke which fanaticism had endeavoured to wreath round their
necks, had not a moment to lose. "The Covenanters," he said,
"after having twice made war upon their sovereign, and having
extorted from him every request, reasonable or unreasonable,
which they thought proper to demand--after their Chiefs had been
loaded with dignities and favours--after having publicly
declared, when his Majesty, after a gracious visit to the land of
his nativity, was upon his return to England, that he returned a
contented king from a contented people,--after all this, and
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