Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 167 of 400
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This page contains running prose poetry from *Albions England*, a historical narrative poem. The text discusses King Richard and his son Henry the Fifth, praising Henry's martial victories in France and Scotland, his virtue as a ruler, and his early death at age thirty-six, leaving an infant son and kingdom to regents. The verse employs early modern English spelling and celebrates Henry as an ideal king comparable to Homer's Achilles. This appears to be from a historical chronicle rather than a Victorian penny dreadful.
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