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# This Page Contains Running Verse About Albion's England This is a page of running prose—specifically poetry or verse—from what appears to be a historical narrative work titled "Albions England." The text recounts political conspiracies and plots against England, referencing threats from Spain, Scotland, Ireland, and papal involvement. It mentions specific historical figures including the Scottish Lady (likely Mary Queen of Scots), Parry, Babington, and Throckmorton, describing their conspiracies and attempts against the English throne. The verse concludes with Parliament advising the Queen (apparently Elizabeth I, though not named) to execute her rival, whom she reluctantly allows to flee rather than face death. The text is densely printed in early modern English typography with archaic spelling conventions.
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re c #% 7. ky. * hes 7 rs , ‘4 ; ™ ] \ Ne rane ENGL AND. OfRifing neer to London,and to take it Plotsthey layde : From X ¢therland the Spanifh King had promifedthem ayde: | From Scotlandinto Spayne fhouldbe the Infant-King betrayde : | dreland meane-while with aduerfe Armes fhould alfo be ore-layde: And hereof,to and fro the Pope,weare Letters ftill conuayde, | | Allwhich,and more direétly prou’d he,pitied loft his head: ae Nor ought his death, from being fuch,did ftand his Sonne in fteade, 4 So hardly finde we Great-men in their Greatnes fatisfide, Or for their Greatnes notto be of other men enuide. But what is All ro thofe haue All, when but in Trifles croft, Difgrace,or greefe,or Grudge vn-queat no leffe than all weare loft? _ Conclude we then;all Riches,Forme,Pompe, Worlds. Applaufe, t bat z - Conclude we then,to Monarchizeistoc6mand theminde. (Windes ‘Throckmorton yeat,more priuie and more pratifing thanthofe, 2 With her, A4endoza,Papilts here,forren,and Land-leapt Foes, ‘Did Mifchiefes that imported more our practiz’ d State difclofe. But when of Parry, Babingron, and their Attempts I thinke, ae With whome this Scotti{p Lady in their bloody hopesdidlinke, = AllforefaidPraGifesfeemethenEpitomiestoit - Whereto thefe folliall Trayrors did themfelues and Senfes fir, Our Centinels,almoft too Jate,the Larum bell did ring, 2 oe -Yeat hardly then to arme her felfe our Generall they bring: 4 The Queene of Scots frd Ours almoft hér Crowne & life had priz ley Eare to prevent the fame fhe would,by audience,be aduis’de. a When gentle Durance might notfalue that Daunger,did remaine, — . ~ (Which God,and Nature tolerate)flea rather than be flaine: a To which our Parliament aduis'd our Queene,butlong in vaine, — a : So far’ was {he from fooing hes that fought her life and Rayne, a ap - in, ’ q R 3 BU: - e 3 4 sa, 4 » é 5 = SCL ww BE . -, ae A ‘ "Fr g