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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: balcony of the arch, by figures representing Monarchy, Rebellion,
and Loyalty. Then the great procession wended its way to the
East India House, situate in the same street, when the East India
Company took occasion to express their dutiful affections, in a
manner "wholly designed by person of quality." As the king
advanced, a youth in an Indian habit, attended by two
blackamoors, knelt down before his majesty's horse, and delivered
himself of some execrable verse, which he had no sooner ended
than another youth in an Indian vest, mounted on a camel, was led
forwards and delivered some lines praying his majesty's subjects
might never see the sun set on his crown or dignity. The camel,
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