Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 353 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a classical narrative work (page 331, marked "An Addition to the Second Booke"). The text recounts a scene in which Aeneas, founding a city near Troy, sacrifices a bull at an altar. When he cuts branches from nearby trees for the ritual, blood flows from them. A ghostly voice—identifying itself as Polydor, son of Priam—reveals that Aeneas has wounded the body of the dead man, whose murdered corpse was buried in the sand by Polymnestor, the king who betrayed and killed him for treasure during Troy's decline. The ghost explains how trees grew from his buried body and now bleeds when wounded.
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