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# Analysis of Page 326 from *Albion's England* This is a **running prose page** of philosophical verse, not a penny dreadful. The text is theological poetry from Chapter 79 of what appears to be Michael Drayton's *Englands Heroicall Epistles* or similar period work (printed in Early Modern English, not Victorian). The verse argues that God's nature—Being, Life, Understanding, Power, and Goodness—transcends human comprehension and material description. It asserts that God is eternal, infinite, immaterial, and beyond the reach of philosophy or language, concluding with a prayer acknowledging divine mystery. The ornamental brackets on the right margin denote stanza breaks.
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As if fhould one diferibe ie Sut ee neuer was stich hhiades®: Nat _ Great though Mans works,yethis Coceits doth far his works exceeds, P But far them both exceeds his A¢md,whence either Sparks-like breed: _ Yentoeh thou bearlt the like,nwans Adind thou fecit not by his deed, 5 - Astouching thy Creator then thus farforth, Man, be saute: ~ Himby his works difcribe notnor bis Subftance dec difpute: _ Forworthy him Forme,Subt Lanice ,Name,can no man attribute, 4 Becaufe of hum all Bezagsbe,and he of whom are All a - Qughtto be ever, him therefore, Eternall,Men do call: 4 > Becaufe to Be and not to Liue were nothing,and the Same ~ Whence is all Life thould be felfe-Life,Him, Lising God,they name, - Becaufe thould Vaderftanding lacke to Life fuch Life were dead, — And Vnderftanding g voyde of Power were lame,and he that bread ~ Them both oughtin himfelfe have both for All,him Men therefore _ — Call Ati¢h:,& Mind: as whowould fay,all Power & wifedoms Stoore, Becaufe to Be, Line, Know, haue Power,if Goodnes be away, Is {mall,and Fac fom Godall Good chia therefore ,Good,Men fay. ~ Butthefe,and whatfoeuer-elfe w hereby i is Godicommended _ Bete not Goa)finite,in time or place els comprehended. ~ He then,the Action of all Powers smuftneedsa Spirit bee: - en Power and Goodnes infinite, from Quantitie cleane free. - Parfection of ParfeGions, All af All,not tobe amd, — Bor mightierthan by formes ot words can be purtray'd ornam’d. - Soufficeth vs to know he is what all Things els are not: Bros chie.cascinpeabte boue Narave,vn- -begot, _ Vopaffiue,vamateriall,vacompounded, Ind inite, ~ In Spirit notin Body,nor in Quantitie but Might. ~ Who,when he fhail be ftudied moftis comprehendedleatt: 7 — Of whom,when to afloile his kinga Sage had oftincreaft - ¢ His times for Studie farther off than at the firft he ceatt, ~ Lord, Darkenes is thy Couert,in thine outter Courts I tier, _ One i ight Wite: and farther no Philofophers afpier, ; ‘ | | | ' ; -Yeat. SCO