Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 124 of 400
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This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be *Albions England*, a historical narrative poem (not a Victorian penny dreadful, but an Early Modern work). The text recounts a story of a woman's seduction and subsequent revenge: a man violates her after she initially resists, then departs; she later tells her husband, who seeks vengeance by allying with Danish forces against England. The passage describes military conflict between the Danes and English, including the death of the valiant Osbret, and mentions kings Ella, Edmund, and Alured. The page is densely printed in period typography with minimal spacing.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
ale SS, EN GLIAND. Bee ai ad Doe thinke her coie,or thinke her chafte,my Cenfure [fufpend: No Woman yeeldeth at the firft, yeat yeeldeth in the ende. She gaue repuifes to his luft,and he replies of Loue: Nor all the Writs Diana had might Capids Plaint remoue. She countermaunding bis demaund,he ceafed Courting now, And did with her by violence what vertues difalow : And then departed, leauing her in felfe-conceit diforafte: More trefpaffed then fome would thinke, and yeat | “perhas as chafte, Tome came her Cord,whofe browes had buds,and found his wife in L \nd(foolifh thing) the told atroth,for which renege he fwears. (tears, But fo the man did proue a beatt s hebetter might haue hid it, Some fuch aremiftically domme,yeat domly doe forbid it, The Wiues efcapes done fecretly, ifby the man dete@ted,* s Shew hilled biips({uppofed btips)meere hornes,not hornes lulpected. At Denmarke in his Cofins Court, he telleth of his wrong: And gaines againtt his foueraigne ‘Lord of Danes an Armic firong : Huagar and Hubba,and himfelte, Conductors of this Hoaft, Vid with their forren forces land sand {poile the Northerne Coafte, ¢ The vicious valiant Osbret(that had vanquifhed ere then | ‘The King and Kingdome of the Scors)though wanting armes & men, Thought skorne his foes fhould beard him fo & bar him vp.in walles, And therefore, iffuing outof Yorke,vpon the Daneshefalles, A bloodie Bargaine then begonne, no fight mightfearcerbe, And of the Dayz/h part were flaine for eucty Englifh three. | But manhood loft,and number wonne,the Davesthey gotthe filde: And Osoret dyed valiantly,that not to liue would yeeld. 3 — Rane while the Daves with freth {upplies ariue at euery Shoore, Vi And warrealmott in cuery theire infefting Znglana {oore: _ Withwhome courragious Etheldred contended long in yaine: By them was he, King Ella,and the holy Edmund flaine. Zee {oihing wasdone,butall vridone, tillKing dlwredhe saiger off his sRoyalfefedi did fet his fubiedts frees : i fl * : , | OTs Di i vai aa iii Gomicbooks: cc