Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 356 of 400
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a Renaissance or early modern literary work (not Victorian—the archaic typography and language suggest 16th or 17th century). The text describes Anna's counsel to Elisa regarding her love for Aeneas, urging her to marry him and bear his children to strengthen her kingdom. It then recounts how Elisa followed this advice, and concludes with the beginning of a hunting scene where Aeneas and the Queen are suddenly caught in a violent storm with black clouds and lightning.
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matching with fo great and valiant a Prince as .4Eneas , thou {hale not onely liue with whom thou doeft loue, and by con- forting thy Tyrians with his Trotans flrongly difappoint the enuie of thofe Nations, but (for Nature hath not giuen thee fuch beautie to die barren ) being awife, become (no doubt) amother, andby legitimate propagation fo glad thy - Subiects,fearles of ciuill diffentions. VWho can then diflike a - that E4/afhouldloue? Burie, Sifter, the thoughts of Siche- #s with his dead bones , and profperoutly profecute and pre- uaile in thy {weete paflions of —4Eneas: Plie him with all prouifions and amorous entertainements : onely for his Shippe-workes faine delatory wants, and by Viner be paft he, partly comming , will (feare not) bee perfectly reclay- med. 3 7 This counfell of 42a, though it heaped as it were _4- thos ou Actua, yet wasit praifed and practifed of EZ/a: for Counfell,foothing the humor of the counfelled, howfocuer vnprofitable, is accounted plaufible. Henceforwarde the Queene (tobe admired, not matched, for her exquifite beau- tie , and rather borrowing of Arte than {canting Nature , as brave in apparell as beautifull in perfon, and voted, euenin her better part, to the loue of 4Enezs ) {0 forted all her deui- ces to hisbeft liking, thatthortly himfelfe laboured with her in one and the felfe-fame paine of wifhed-for pleafure. O- mitting therefore the circumftances of their difcourfes , fea- {tings, and all poeticall faynings,only proceede we,in few,to the Euent of thefe their amorous Beginnings. A Hunting was generally appointed, the Queene, Aeneas, their Ladies , and Knights brauely mounted, the Standes were prewned, the Toyles pitched, the Hounds vacoupled, the Game rowfed, a foote, and followed, when fodainely , a- midft the harborlefle Defart in the hoteft purfute, they Skye, — \ of ouer-caft with blacke Clowdes, {howred downe fuch flafhes _ Gomicbookstco