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# This is a page of running verse narrative prose from what appears to be a classical mythological poem titled "Albions England." The page contains two chapters. Chapter 1 (top) praises Saturn as a wise ruler who teaches men agriculture and navigation, noting that he loves the goddess Cybella (to whom he is married) and fathered a son who was born and slain. Chapter 2 (bottom, newly begun) describes how the Sun god has completed his circuit through the zodiac, and Cybella gives birth to a second child, Jupiter, fathered by the Queen of the Gods. The text notes the infant smiled at birth but that Saturn wanted the newborn dead, causing grief to the widowed Vesta and others.
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