Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 257 of 400
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# Description of Page This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be an early modern religious work (not a Victorian penny dreadful, despite the OCR source attribution). The page contains two distinct sections: an introductory passage addressing "Ambitious Rome" and its corruption, accusing the Pope of being Anti-christ; and below a chapter heading "CHAP. LII," a longer moral poem beginning "Vt humaine Purenes none is such" that discusses the conflict between flesh and spirit, human hypocrisy, and moral weakness. The text uses archaic spelling and typography typical of 16th or 17th-century English printing.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
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