Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 268 of 400
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# Analysis This is a page of running prose poetry from a historical narrative work titled "Albions England." The text discusses Mary, Queen of Scots—her imprisonment in England, her threat to Queen Elizabeth's security, and various nobles implicated in plots on her behalf. The passage explains why she was kept under guard rather than released to Scotland or elsewhere, and details the treachery of figures including the Duke of Norfolk, who allegedly conspired with the Scottish Queen and plotted her marriage and escape. The archaic spelling and verse form indicate this is an early modern text, not actually Victorian penny dreadful fiction as initially suggested by the framing.
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NE ERS SC eee ee “ALBIONS ENGLAND, —> |. Aad not for AZaries Title, orher any virtuous Giftes, Thinke tharthey her inleagued, but frosts her to plot thetr Driftes, Her felfe meane while, falfe-Paradi’zd, befybbing 4E/ops Croe; Vain-glorious throngh the Foxes gloze,did ende her fong in woe. Sufhceth what ts faid before,to {hew wherefore the flead : Here was the taken,whom if Scots had taken had been dead: ~ Put voder Guarde: and fo was meete fhould one that quarreld Ours, And not her felfe alone,buthad Abbetrors forren Powrs, Yeat Princely her Allowance,and more ftately,as is favde, Than had the been in Scorland: nor was Libertie denayde Of Havking, Hunting ,and Difports: that had the been content, » Her merrieft and fecureft dates a Prifoner fhe fpent. Scotland, though labourd of our Queene, would not receiue her, and Such Treacher,though imprifon’d here,prou’d {he to either Land, || That death awaited herat Home,and,had we let her goe, (throe, | She was the Leagues fhot-Anchor might our Queene and State o’re- i} Percreand Nenell,auncient Earles, This yetin Spami[hpaye, ¢ (Though bacely ill, too well for him his Countrie would betray) | That other headed,both her Wreckes,wee touch but bythe way: S }| With thatfucceeding County,who concurring with hisbrother, )) Oncepardon’d,ftill confpyred,and(Lawes Progrefie fo ro {mother) )) Difpatcht himfelfe : Pager and moe, like guiltie as thofe other, (ther, (| . Whofe faultes & falls had Rome and Spayne their Father, her their Mo- Omit we Worfolks Houle,from firft of Howards made a Prince, Though fauor’d of the Commons, haue defe ted euer fince, As LAbfolomvs'd Curtefie but as Ambitions {moake, : Laft Thomas Duke of Worfolke fo did his afpyring cloke, ¢ Whom promis’d faith once free’d, but that promife foone he broke.d Him for Confedrate with thofe Earles,rebelling ,Proofes did touch: And with this Scotti{h Queene thathe Intelligencehad much: Her Marriage that he clofely fought,and her Efcape pretended, (ded: _ Andin her Right, had fadp’d their wrong, her Highnes Raine had ea ia. in * _ 1 ?.. a \ Tie. . : 2 | —- = cGomicbooks.com