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# Analysis of Page from "Albions England" This is a **running prose page** from what appears to be a narrative poem, not a Victorian penny dreadful. The text is from Book 6, Chapter 31 of *Albions England* (a 16th-century historical-poetic work, not Victorian-era sensational fiction). The visible verse concerns a speaker reflecting on lost love and romantic disappointment. The narrator describes physical decline from lovesickness—lost appetite, weakened senses, pallor—and watches the beloved remain unmoved. The passage includes the speaker's internal reasoning about accepting rejection with dignity, arguing that "no folly were in Love, if so no folly were in us," and concluding that it is better to lose love early than to persist futilely. The narrative voice resolves to leave, enduring "scorne and skoffe" (scorn and mockery).
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