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# What's on This Page This is a prose page from Chapter 69 of "The Tweleth Booke of Albions England." The text describes a banquet scene in which a character named Dorcas instructs Elenor about accessing Mandeuil's locked closet containing rare and rich items, suggesting she feign illness to isolate herself so she can investigate. The passage employs archaic spelling and Early Modern English verse conventions typical of period literature rather than sensation fiction proper.
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| Wey THE TWELETH salam oe WAI = MALBIONS. ENGLAND. welnes yy eeeean He toa aris her inuites , and did for i depart. 4 Now to his Lodging (which had sail beene Manadeutls alo ) 7 Comes Elenor , accompned with acrew of La. fe dies moe, _ Of whichwas one that Staffordlow’ ‘d,0f herbeloued: She se — Inftruéted was by him ofall fhould there efteQed be. _ The Banquet ended, Dore.s(fo was Staffords Ladies name) _ Thus {peaketh vnto E/enor,as if it weare in game, In yonder Chamber( poynting toalocked Doore thereby) Hath Mandeuil his Clofet,and no common Armory. Full many things theare-in,quoth fhe,both rare and rich fawI Howbeit srafford,cuen to me,did long that fight denye. Weare he andall the reft abroad ,wheare lies the Keye I wot: __ Then fayne you ficke,and fleepie,fo the reft may hence be got. 4 Saone Ladies liften Nouelties,and ferue themfelues with Shifts, Not i | i om