Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 30 of 400
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running verse prose from *Albions England*, a narrative poem. The text presents a dramatic mythological scene involving Saturn, his wife Rhea (Vesta), and the infant Jupiter (Jove). The passage describes Saturn's demand that newborn twins be killed to prevent them from fulfilling a prophecy, Rhea's anguished resistance, and ultimately the rescue of the infant—who is taken to a mountain cave where a goat provides milk and bees produce honey to sustain him. The page employs early modern spelling and typography typical of Renaissance-era English poetry rather than Victorian penny dreadful sensationalism, suggesting this is a historical reprint or anthology rather than original Victorian material.
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