Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 156 of 400
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# Description This is a page of running prose verse from *Albions England* (Chapter 27, Book 5), printed in early modern English typography. The text is a narrative poem discussing the hardships of common life—labor, aging, poverty, and mortality—before transitioning into a story about Robin Hood. The passage praises Robin Hood as a righteous outlaw who robbed the rich to feed the poor, lodging his men in caves and forests while they lived better than common folk suffering under corrupt authorities ("Churles"). The verse uses rhyming couplets in Spenserian style.
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24p.27. | ee aeaaee . ee ae 7: | REMONS: ENGERRD, , Perhaps,experience beating vs,doth bid vs lay to thrive, _ The firft degree to which fay (fome) is warely to wiue: But,wiued,ifour Sain@ become(as not vnlike)a Shroe, - Then is that firft degree to thrift the third degree in woe. ; - Orbe it fhe be conftant,wife,well inter tayning, faire, - Doe graunther filence,patience,and what vertuies elsberare, -Yeat by how much more thee deferues fo much more we defite To pleafe and profit fuch an one,for whom on hers we tire Our felues and fences,yea perchance, labour the moft we may, : Mauch labour is too little that fhould hon(hold charge defray. We,aged,carke to liue and leaue an ouerplus in ftore: 1 Ae SPV Perhaps for Spendals : fo amidft abundance liue we poore: 4 Out heires waxe fickithe of our health,too long ourheere abod, ~ Meane while the neerer to our graues the further we from God: ; Grippell in workes,cefty in words, lothfome for moftatlength, » And fuch at fourefcore as at foure for manners, witte,and ftrength.._ _ Thus Infancie is feeble,and our luftie youth vnftayde, ‘ Our manhood carking,and ourage more lothed than obayde. _ And thus froin‘firft to Jatt our liues.be fruiteles and ynqueate : But you,perhaps,expect I fhould of nouelties intreate. _ Thane no tales of Robin Hood,though mal-content was he In better daies firft Richards daies,andliu’'din woods aswe 4 A Tymon of the world: but not devoutly was befoe, | ¢ .. a DS a +i a a 4 : ~ And therefore praife I not the man : But for from him did groe. Words worth thenote,a wotd or twaine of hint ere hence we goe,. Thofe daies begot fone mal-contents,the Principall of whome A County was,that with atroope of Yomandry didrome,. ‘Braue Archers oat deliver men,fince nor before fo.good, _ Thofe tooke from rich to giue the poore,and manned Robin Hood, — _Hefed them well,andlod e’dthem fafe in pleafant Caues and pias Of faying to his merry men,what iufter life than ours ? : Bex vic we bee that abroad the Chutles abufe Or hide, | pe Seg "comicbooks.co