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# Description of This Page This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be an early modern work titled "Albions England" (dated 1553, Chapter 31). The text is not a Victorian penny dreadful, but rather an Elizabethan or Jacobean-era narrative poem in archaic English. The speaker recounts his failed attempts to win a woman's love through various personae—soldier, merchant, countryman, craftsman—before the god Pryapus reveals her infidelity with a rustic man. The passage concludes with the speaker's dismay at this revelation.

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