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# Page from *Albions England* This is a page of **running prose poetry** from what appears to be a narrative work titled *Albions England* (Chapter 30, Book 6). The text is written in early modern English verse and recounts a mythological dispute—apparently involving Venus, Mars, Vulcan, and other classical deities—concerning marital fidelity and a woman's honesty. The speaker argues his wife's virtue against accusations, invokes divine judgment, and references a quarrel among the gods. The passage concludes with what seems to be the beginning of a new episode ("And then he thus begun"). This is characteristic of early modern English narrative poetry rather than Victorian penny dreadful fiction.
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