Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 223 of 400
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running verse narrative (page 199 of a work titled "Albions England") printed in early modern English typography. The text recounts the story of Rosamund, apparently the mistress of a king, and describes how a queen discovers her location through intricate plotting. The narrative focuses on a knight's failed courtship of Rosamund, the king's sons and queen learning of her existence, the queen's angry response, and her eventual discovery of Rosamund's hidden bower—a journey complicated by an intricate maze of "Turnings." The passage concludes as the queen finally locates and confronts Rosamund, finding her richly dressed.
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,* ? Ree mt my ite > “ . ie - - va p # - oo Pi “ADBIONS- 1 ey For whiltt i it played in her heart,it paufed on her toung, Not Sibils Caue at Cama,nor the Labyrinth in Creat, Was like the Bower of Rofamund,for intricate and great. The Pellicane theare neafts his Bird,and fporteth oft with her, Conducted by a Clew of thread,els could he not but err. Befides her Maydes, a Knight of truft attended on her theare, Who fuffred for her Beautie slong concealing itforfeare, Atlength atfull and formally he courted het for grace, “Butall in vaine,nought booted him to haue both time and place: Henry quoth fhe,begonne and he fhall end my thoughts vnchait. Nor peach’t fhe him nor he, difmitt,did hold himfelfe difgrae’ft, The Kings three Sonnes had notice of their Fathers Leiman now, So had the Queene,and they of fuch coriuing difallow. Came I from France Queene Dowager,quoth fhe,to pay fo deere For bringing him fo great a wealth as to be Cuckquean dheere? «da Ifo old a woman,he fo young a wanton growen, | Asthat I may not pleafe,that pleas’ d,and ftill might with bis owen ? What is the Drab,or tempting Diuell ? or wherefore doteth he? The French King once, himfelfe euen now for faire preferred me. And hath he toyled vp his Game ? and fettles he to loue her ? Nor Heauen nor hell fhall crofle my courfe butthat I will remoue her. | Like Phrognefeeking Philomel,~he feckethtorandfound = = | The Bower that lodg’d her Husbands Loue, built partly vnder ena Sum She entred, out fo intricate weare. Turnings to and fro, 3 | That welneere the had loft herfelfe,but could not Gnde her Foe: Yeat out fhe got,and backe fhe goes with her Attendants,who | Admire their! furious Miftrefle, and miflike what the would doe, ‘With her Confederates oft (hewent ypreuented of her will, ‘Howbeit laftly did preuaile: For-hap did hit fo ill, That whilft the Knight did iffue our,{ofpecting no , affaney: He was affailed,and from him his giding Clew they caught: So wonne they vnto Rofamund.VV hom when the Queene didvew; = = gee clad in rich Auire(herfelfemorerichofhew) = ES + Eomicboo Korcom