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# This Page Analysis This is running prose poetry from Chapter 20 of a historical narrative work titled *Albions England*. The text is printed in early modern English verse and recounts legendary and historical events involving Danish invasions of England and various English kings—including references to the Danes' plague upon the land, King Aelred's struggles against them, King Adelstane's victory, King Edgar's reign, and Egelred's wickedness. The page contains dense, archaic poetic couplets chronicling these conflicts and royal succession, presented in double-column layout typical of historical narrative poetry rather than sensational fiction.

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