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# What's on This Page This is a page of running verse narrative prose from what appears to be a romantic or historical tale titled "Albions England." The text presents a love story involving characters named Elenor, Mandeuil, and Stafford, narrated largely through letters exchanged between them. The verse discusses the constancy of male love versus the fickleness of female affection, presents two exemplary lovers whose devotion transcended death, and relates Stafford's passionate declaration of love via a ring sent as a token. The narrative touches on courtly love, religious devotion, and military service, written in early modern English verse with ornate typography.
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| -ALBIONS. ENGL. ND, _ Beare lines that fecond He that fo,by louing,betterd is 2 | is often feene, Loue works in Man a weake deiected minde, _ Tis ever feeneja Womans Loue doth alter asthe winde: } | Example then be Mandeuil for Men not to be idle ~ In Amorous Paffions: Labor is to loue,atleaft,a Bridle: | Example to be Elenor : Buclet vs fay no more, j For Wonien euer alter,faith the Gofpell preach Hinbete: ~ Conclude we then,when Elenor and ALandeuil did die, The Method of true louing did with them to Heauen flie, _ For ever fince too feruentin their Loue are Men, for mott, ~ But, Jré#-likejin VWWomens Hearts Louetoo and fro doth pofte, One Stafford (of a Noble Houfe,a Courtiour of good hauor, A frind and faft to AZanaewil and in the Prince his Fauor) From Cyprus from his Friend receiu’dtwo Letters,one was his, | the other fent to E/evor,and that purported this, Of you receiued Ia Ring oa Token to your Minde, — Affe I metit,and itismy fortuneit to finde: _ For if the Heart may ,as it might,for Minde be vnderftood, - 3 My Heart is yours,your Ring fo mine,Hearts interchang’ d were good, ~ More did I feare than ever in your Ladithip I found, ~ Difdaineful Lookes from thofe faire Eyes that me with lone did wotid. ~ Now fpeake I Loue, far from thofe Lookes fo forceable to kill, — Howbei: thar! loue is not to worke or with youl, | (feard ry ~ Not more than this ( though Princes Frownes beare death with them) _ Forhad you lou’d,the King miflike,what had I for'ft to die 2 _ Wheare [bauebeene (were blafphemie from VVomen to detract) Great {tore of Beauties hauel {eene,but none,as yours,exa@) Cours alfo more than ftately with faire Ladies in the fame, “Ww hich feemed common Formes to me, remembring but your name. _ ‘When in the Holly-landI prayd,enen atthe holy Graue, _ (Forgiue me God) a figh tor finne,and three for Lone I gaue, - - Again the fearce —Arabrans I the Soldans Pay did take, Nba of as Fas da Saint George SaintE enor I fpake. / com