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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Cary's fun, or Amyas's good wine, or the nobleness which lies in
every young lad's heart, if their elders will take the trouble to
call it out, the whole party came in to terms one by one, shook
hands all round, and vowed on the hilt of Amyas's sword to make
fools of themselves no more, at least by jealousy: but to stand by
each other and by their lady-love, and neither grudge nor grumble,
let her dance with, flirt with, or marry with whom she would; and
in order that the honor of their peerless dame, and the brotherhood
which was named after her, might be spread through all lands, and
equal that of Angelica or Isonde of Brittany, they would each go
home, and ask their fathers' leave (easy enough to obtain in those
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