Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 331 of 400
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This is a page of running prose poetry from *Albion's England*, presenting a narrative about deception involving a ring. The text describes how a man at a masquerade ball tricks a lady into surrendering her ring by pretending to have lost one himself, offering her a tablet as collateral. He then uses a game of dice as cover to flee with the stolen ring. The passage is written in early modern English verse (appears to be from an older work, not actually Victorian), employing rhyming couplets to relate this tale of cunning theft and romantic intrigue.
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