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This is a page of running prose poetry from Chapter 68 of *Albions England*. The text describes Casben, who ruled the Shawgh's court for thirty years without leaving home, maintaining a royal court with numerous concubines and wives in the manner of great monarchs. It narrates diplomatic matters involving Turkish merchants, trade agreements, letters from English sovereigns to the Shawgh, and the treatment of Christian visitors who must remove their shoes when granted audience. The passage concerns itself with religious differences and commercial negotiations between England and the Ottoman Empire.
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