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# This Page This is running prose text from Chapter LXXV of what appears to be *Albions England*, a narrative poem. The page contains ornamental header decoration and a large decorative initial letter beginning the chapter. The visible text describes a man's arrival at an inn in Hertfordshire and his deceptive plan to hide beneath a gentlewoman's bed while claiming he sleepwalks. Meanwhile, a lusty yeoman from a Northern Bishop's household arrives to lodge at the same residence, creating dramatic tension as the bishops attempt to accommodate him.
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ee a JH SHS SR SriS se Seaneteouoe| =) T Ware(in Hertford- thire a “ei not bette- Vs es red,l winne, Ka (2) OF thorough-Faires, from Thence to 7 a for NESS many an harbrous Inne, TA % W athe with the once (hip-bearing Ley, by Ual- fred {lu’{te in Three, SS5 To diflipate the Dame-Fleete, that expugning | Heri fora bee.) D Nex day they timely tooke their Inne,had fup’t ere Sunnewas fer, | ~ Abroad walkt the,vafeene did he into het Chamber get: _ Firlt giuing out he would to bed, leaft,mift,be marde the Sport, - And,leatt thie feate,the day before had made to herreport, ‘To Mer riment,that oftentimes he walked in his Sleepe, | | “And theo nor Tock oor Let could him from Place or Perfon keepe: : If inthis fit [chance on you,be not afrayd,quoth he: -Bur,it youcome, Ple whip you thence,then beft not come,quoth fhe. — Thus,and with this Preparatiue,he counts the Bootie his, 4 _ And on the Rufhes,vnderneath her Bed,he couchedis: Andwhat with watch the night before,and wearines that day, “And, to be freth anone,he flept afloone as downe he lay. -Meane while,a luftie Yeoman ofa Northerne Bifhops(who Was often there a Gueit ane g00d)alights and goes into _ The Gentlewomans poynted Roome,and,fay what they could fay, There would he lodge,for that had bin his Lodging many a day. Loth were they to difpleafe him (for an Harbinger he was) f And then were Bithops Beuations as they coo and fro did paffe : vy For book