Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 250 of 400
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# Analysis of Page This is running prose from **Albion's England**, a historical narrative poem (not a penny dreadful, despite your framing). The visible text is verse celebrating England's victory over the Spanish Armada, attributing success to divine providence, Queen Elizabeth's leadership and presence among her troops, and the courage of English forces. The passage emphasizes that God—not military force or strategy alone—secured the triumph, invoking biblical parallels (Sennacherib, Jericho) to frame the English victory as divinely ordained. The antiquated spelling and typography date this to the early modern period, likely the 1590s-1600s.
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2 fs _ ALBIONS ENGLAND, = About Eight thowfands perifhed by famine,fea,and fight, For Treafure Shippes,and Carrages,loft Honor,Prifners tayne, — The Spaniards, hardly {caping hence, fcaptnot rebukes in Spaine. Well might thas much(as much itdid) cheere Exedand, butmuch Concurrancie from one to allto {top that common Sore. (more Euen Catholiques(chat erred name doth pleafe the Papifts)waer ¢ As forward in this Quarre}l as the formoft Armes to bear : Recufants and Sufpects of note: Of others was no caer, § And had not our God-guided Fight on Seas preuailed,yet The Spaniaras,land wherefo they could,had with our Armies met. Ourcommon courage witht no lefle;fo lightly feard we Foes, Such hope in God,fuch hate of them,fuch hearts to barter bloes, Heere flam’d the Cyclops Forges; Mars his Armorie was heere, - Himfelfe he fheads in vs,and with our Caufe our felues we cheere, ‘But(which had {carrefide our wounds,ifwounded,with the Bale _Ofher {weete Prefeiice,fo applaus’d as in Sea-ftormes a calme) | Herroyall-felfe, E/izaberh our Soueraigne gracious Queene, In magnanimious Maiettie amidft her Troupes was feene, Which made vs weepe for joy: nor was her kindnes leffe to vs. -Thinke nothing letting then that night the common caufe difcus, ~Whaare Prince and People have in Louc a Sywpathie asthus, — Howbeit Force,nor Policic,but Gods fole prouidence, Did cleare fore-bofted Conqueft and behighted Thraldome hence. He in Saneherib his nofe did put his hooke,and brought. Him backe againe the way he came,without performing ought: He fought for vs,Alonely we did {hout and Trumpetsfound, When as the walles of Zericho fell flat vnto the ground, ‘Yea leaft (for earft did neuer heere like {trong Supplies befall, Like loyall-heartsin everie one,like warlike mindes in all, Lefie fpaer of Purfes more Fore-fight,and valiant Guides to act, _ _As thewde our hardie little Fleete that battell neuer flackt) Leaft thefe,I fay axight hauebeen faid the caufe that we fubdew'de, Euen God,to Glorifie himfelfe,our gayned caufe purfew'de, ° Comicbooks*com)