Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 122 of 400
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# Description of Page This is a page of running verse from a narrative poem titled *Albions England*. The text describes romantic and dynastic matters: a woman named Argentile submits herself to a suitor whose former love could not move her; they marry and embrace in ecstasy. The passage then shifts to historical narrative, describing how Curan, a knight, claims Argentile as his rightful wife, wages wars in Deria and Brentia, and seizes the crown of Northumberland from the treacherous Edel. The bottom section (Chapter XXI) introduces the Saxon kings, their various genealogies traced to pagan gods, and their conquests and conflicts across England and beyond. No illustrations appear on this page.
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ONS ENGLA bia Pi graunt quoth ak was too much, that you ee fouefomuch: But whom your former could not moue,your fecond louedoth touch: I Th twife beloued Cargentile fubmitteth hertothee, ¢ | And for thy double Jone prefents herfelfe afingle fee, "e In In paffion,noti in perfon chaung’ d,and I, my Lord,am fhe: § They {weetely furfeiting in ioy,and filent for a {pace, M4 \ henas the Extafie had end did ten derly imbrace, | y And for heir wedding and their with got fitting time and place. S — Not Exgland({or of Hengef? then was named fo this Land) TI en Curan had an hardier Knight, his force could none withftand , WV hofe Sheep-hooke laid apart,he then had higher things in hand. pine knowne his lawfull claime in Argentile her ri ight, | He war’din Déria,and he wonne Brenitiatoo in fight: | A ‘And fo from trecherous Ede/tooke at once his life and Crowne, And of Northumberlandwas King,long raigning in renowne, - { & fads & ‘ 3 He Saxons ( that, in thefe difcents, deriue from Godsand nen, Ione, Minos , Geta, Elokwald , Flyn, Fredwelfe Fr eloffe, Woden, (Bach, as heere placed, others fonne) not onely } Conquer heere, 2 Bur with their wandring Armies poy 4 the World through-out welncere. % The Englifh-Saxon Kings oppreffe the mightier onesthe weake: Each trifling caufe fufficing here their loueandleaguestobreake. = ie. ‘One feazeth yofhis Neighbours Realme,and is difleaz'd ere-long: Cl: | For Empirefome, for Enuic tome ioem 0 righ their wrong © ie ) Coed Komic ehooksicom =>)