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# What Is On This Page This is a page of running prose poetry from what appears to be a narrative work titled "Albions England" (visible at top). The text is printed in early modern English verse and describes a dramatic nighttime incident at an inn: a bishop's servant attempts to sexually assault a gentlewoman in a shared bedroom; she cries out, he grabs her by the beard thinking she's a man, and a struggle ensues with other servants arriving with lights and tools. The passage concludes with the accused man claiming everyone is deceived and promising to explain his actions. The page contains no illustrations, only densely printed text in period typeface with ornamental brackets marking verse sections.
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