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# Page Analysis: Running Prose from "Albions England" This is a page of running verse text from Michael Drayton's *Albions England*, a historical poem in English. The upper portion recounts political executions during Tudor times—beheaded nobles and the Duke of Norfolk—and credits Queen Elizabeth with ending such tragedies. The text then transitions (marked "CHAP. XLVI") to mythological narrative, describing Cadmus planting his kingdom and the birth of Narcissus to the goddess Lyriope and the mortal Cephisus in Boeotia. The page employs Early Modern English spelling and poetic couplets typical of this era's popular historical-mythological verse.

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