Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 354 of 400
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a classical narrative adaptation rather than a typical Victorian penny dreadful. The text recounts Aeneas receiving divine instruction to abandon his settlement and seek Italy, his completion of religious rites, and his fleet's subsequent voyage to Carthage, where Queen Elisa (Dido) receives him with such hospitality and personal charm that she becomes enamored of him. The language is archaic and highly ornate, employing early modern English spelling and style, suggesting this is either an actual early modern text or a Victorian pastiche imitating classical literature.
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: ~- Par ey . ‘ ’ —_ »* yew Ve) ; ; S 4 aa foretelling of thy Deftinie , Iaccount mee happily harmed: » Forknow ( Aeneas) that in vaine thou doefs build wherethe Gods deny thine abode : leaue therefore thefe defamed Coatts, and profperoufly plant the Remaine of Troy and _ thy Pofteritie in the fertill ztaéanClime, _ The voice rhus ceafed to fpeake , and Aeneas , without further touch of the forbidden Shrubs, continuing his feare ‘finihhed the Sacrifice,and after the Phrygian fafhion folemn- lie held an Obit to the Ghoft of his murthered Kinfman. Then ,by thisadmonifhment,he and his Tro/ans,leauing the new reared Citie, difanker from Thrace in queft of the behighted /tae. But no fooner had they putto Sea, then that the windes and the waues follicited (a Poeticall fiction) by the wife of Jupiter,fo tofled and turmoyled the difparkled Nauie, that.the horror of the circumftances , continually threatning their liues , left onely hoped-for death as the re- maine of allcomfort. Atlength, thefe inftruments of their long wandrings , and the caufes of Axchifes and of manie noble perfonages there perifhing, counterpleaded ( as is fa- bled) by Venus, tofled their diftackled Fleet to the Shore of - Libya. Neereto the place of their arriuall ftood the beautiful Citie of Carthage, which EZfa(whom the Phenicians for her magnanimious dying, did afterwards name Dido) hadnewly builded: 4eneas by fafe conduct receiued from her repay- ring thither, found {uch royall entertainment, thatin refpect of the prefent folace he had forgotten al pafled forrowes, and his hart-fpent Trofams found bountifull {upplies to all their _ late-endured {carcities, _ A Sein In the meane while Aeneas (for perfonage the Jow/# , for wel-fpoken the Mercuri, and no lefle fortunate vnder Ve- nus her conttellation ) with hiscomelines fo intifed the eies, with his{peeches fo inchaunted the eares, & with his vertues .. foenflamed the heart of the amorous Cathagenian Queene, that hardly modeftie difcented that her tongue affirmed not > 4 ‘. WEP fr 4 - Se ee ee comichbooks: = AR a Be ; re PO ae > 2a PE $54) O77 eA dove 2 E+ OR ety ee ee eee ee atten