Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 180 of 400
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# Page Analysis This is a running prose page from what appears to be an early modern dramatic or poetic work titled "Albions England" (visible at top). The page consists entirely of verse text in Early Modern English, discussing love, women, and courtship through mythological and classical references (Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Pan). The speaker reflects on love's nature, women's constancy, and recounts his own courtship "with rufull lookes, sighes, sweete Pigfnye, and Fooleries." The language and typography suggest this predates Victorian penny dreadfuls—it appears to be from the 16th or 17th century, not Victorian sensation fiction.
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