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# Running Prose Page from "Albions England" This is a page of running verse text (page 136, Chapter 28) from what appears to be Michael Drayton's *Albions England*, a historical poem in English. The visible text discusses moral themes about wealth, vanity, and death, then narrates historical events involving an Earl, the Queen, Prince Edward, and conflicts with the Spencers. The passage describes military action, flight to France, and ultimately the downfall of the Spencers and the King's wicked counselors. The text is presented in dense verse paragraphs with period typography and spelling conventions.
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€ sVe- on Eee Sai ,. oe ALHONS VENGERND Od _As,faue for fafhion,teareleffe: And it matters not, for why ? - Teftators and Executors fo give and fo receaue, _ Asdoubtfull whethers ioy or griefe is more to take orleaue : _ For,as do hogges their troughes to hounds,fo thefe giue and getplace, ~ Death not the Dier,giuies bequeftes,and therefore but Graue-prace. Norall die teitate: it they doe,yet wieles may wills preuent, —~ Or what by rigor was mifgot,in ryote is mifpent. | Thea Churles,why are they Churles vnto themfelues and others too _ The good that cometh of their goods is good themfelues fhall doo. &B ut men doe walke in {hadoes,and difquiet thersfelues in vaine- _ To gather Riches,ignorant to whom they fhall remaine. _ The world thus brooding Vanities,and I obferuing ir, - Here in theworld,not of the world,fuch as you fee me fit, The Earle did well allow his words,and would haue liu’d his life, Durft be haue ftayd,for whom purfute in every place was rife : _ He reconuenting armes therefore,and taken Prifnor fo, Died to his Countries friends a friend,and to her foes a foe. A u PF Or might that Queene & Kings owne Son efcape the Spencers 4 N But, fearing ,fled to France,& there as banifhed abide: (pride, -Tillthence fupplanted,fatetie at Hemande they prouide. _doba,brother to the Earle,a Knight of Chitualrie the chiefe, With little bura lackie band,was thipte fortheir reliefe. No fooner had the Zealand fhips conuaide their men athore, But Englith Succors daily did increafe their Standerds more, Year firtt che Queene,Prince Edward,and the Nobles humbly craue Theirs and theirs Countries enemies,but no redrefle might haue : And then Sir Johz of Henande fhewed himfelfe a warrior braue: ‘The King, his wicked Councellors,hisbig Vpitarts,and all Were overcome : So Spencers bothfrom heauen to hell did fall, , Purtoa fowle andihamefull death: withothersthat mifled = ‘The King in Out-rages more great than earlt in England bred. : i DATO GH abt Ald ; Prolers, / ° ” @ Fcomichboo