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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: persuasion and arguments, thou hadst been a dead man, I can tell thee.
Let this peril that thou hast passed through teach thee two lessons.
First, be more honest. Second, be not so bold in thy comings and goings.
A man that walketh in the darkness as thou dost may escape for a time,
but in the end he will surely fall into the pit. Thou hast put thy head
in the angry lion's mouth, and yet thou hast escaped by a miracle.
Try it not again." So saying, he turned and left Robin and was gone.
For three days Robin abided in London in the Queen's household,
and at the end of that time the King's head Page, Edward Cunningham,
came, and taking Robin with him, departed northward upon his way
to Sherwood. Now and then they passed bands of the King's men
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