Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 34 of 400
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# Analysis of Page This is a page of running verse narrative poetry from *Albions England*, presented in early modern blackletter type. The text recounts mythological battles involving Jupiter, Saturn, Ganymedes, Juno, and the giant Aegeon, describing how Jupiter defeated his enemies and won divine honor among the heathen—though the narrator expresses some embarrassment at recounting Jupiter's deceptive cunning regarding an unnamed seduction. The passage is part of a larger heroic chronicle mixing classical mythology with English legendary history.
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To “a A ee » f . es . ti q But he and his were chafed backe,cuen to their Citie walles, | For who fo ftoode with Zapicer by Jupiter he falles. | 4 And there the Toyan Paragon Ganymedes was taine, : » Twixt whom and Jupiter thencefoorth found friendfhip did remaine, Then Sararze did the fecond time to Seas with fhame retire, j And neuer after durft by warre againtt hisfonne con(pire ; But fayling into lower Realmes,in /tale did dwell: {A id hereof it is faid his fonne did chafe him into hell. A AEane while,lefle ioyous of his famethen iclous of his freakes, | £Y & Her wrong Queene Javo onthe Truls of Jupiter fhe wreakes. Ww hich was the caufe chat,all too late,he (purpofing returne To refcue Danae,in whofe loue heamoroutly did burne) | Was caft by ftormes into the Seas,that foorthwith tooke thename | OF him whom for his Piracies foe vanquitht in the fame, “Yemight haue feene Aegeon theare,with wreakfull wrath inflamde | Atfight of Jove,at whofe decay he long invaine had aimd, © | And how that owe had now the worft,and ina trife againe | The'Gyant with his twife three Barkes in hazard to be taine. | The Cem aures (hew them valerous,{o did xeon ftout, _ And braue Ganymedes did Aeale his balefull dole about : | But when coutagious Jupiter had beaten to the ground _Aegeon,and in felfefame Chaynes wherein he often bound ‘The harmelefft foules that croft thofe Seas, himfelfe in fetters lay, “Ye might hauefayd,and truly fayd,that then did end the fray. So many were his high exploits,whereof {uch wonder bread, "That for the fame the Heathen folke do deifie him dead. Which fince they are fo manifold, many ouerpaffe: And though Amphitriobluth to heare how he deceiued was, And that C“/cmena pinch my toong,pofleft with bafhfull fhame, 7 -Yeathougi that Zspiter himfelfe my lautfh tongue fhall blame, Yer fince thar iealous svn knowes already of the fame, : I dare to tell how Jupiter fo cunningly beguilde Py GOMMIC books.col Al