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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: hostler.
"Beshrew my heart else," answered the tapster, "since there are
but four miles betwixt us and Oxford. Marry, if my ale did not
convince the heads of the scholars, they would soon convince my
pate with the pewter flagon."
"Call you that Oxford logic?" said the stranger, who had now
quitted the rein of his horse, and was advancing towards the inn-
door, when he was encountered by the goodly form of Giles Gosling
himself.
"Is it logic you talk of, Sir Guest?" said the host; "why, then,
have at you with a downright consequence--
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