Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 357 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose text—specifically a narrative passage from what appears to be an early modern work (likely 17th century, not Victorian as the query assumes). The text describes Aeneas and Elissa sheltering together during a storm, their subsequent courtship and marriage, and a Trojan nobleman's reproachful speech to Aeneas, urging him to abandon his idle life in Carthage and remember his duty to the gods and his people. The passage treats classical mythological material with elaborate, ornate language typical of Renaissance literature.
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— Te Petia ee bY ea eee eee a ee ae RE OD Oe eB 4 a t P my. By > eg. ey ~ i. gb, * Re fe Zt 7 a at ae ye f % j 1s y 1 hat- 7 , A le A > 5) fig 5 ’ ’ é i of Lightening, vollies of Thunder, Hayleftones,andRaine, that glad was euery of the Tyrians and Trotans , difperfing : themfelues, to fhift for one, El//¢ and AEnezs in the meane ie while finding a Cane that fheltred them twaine. Being there ; oY TNS allalone , vaknowen of and vnfought for of their Seruants, - Obopportunity,the chiefe Actrefic in al att€pts,gaue the Plau- | diatein Lene his Comedie. Imagine fhort wooing where ei- : ther partie is willing: their faiches plighted fora marriageto 4 - befolemnized ( with kinde kifles among ) hee did what har- med not, and the had what difpleafed not: A young AEneas fhould haue been tnolded, had he notbeen marred (as might feeme) in the making When this {weet Caulme in the fharp ftorme was with the tempeft thus ouerpafied, then came they both out not {uch as they entred in,and were receiued of 7 their Traines, attending their pleafures, not examining their pe paftimes: and fo hauing continued the Chace vntill night | difcontinued their fport, they, retyring to Carthage, were {umptuoully fealted of E4/a in her Pallace. During thefe their Alcion dames (not generally liked of all) one there was, a noble Troian,that had thefe fpcechesto _4eneas. a Shouldeft thou beleene ( farre be it from Exes fo to be- Jecue) thatthe Oracles of our Gods, behighting- vs the Con- queft of sale were fuperftitious,then beleeue alfo (vndecei- _ ued mayft thoufo beleeue) that our effeminate abode here is | vaine and {landerous: to attempt that former without an O- | racle, yeawith the loffe of our liues, is honorable, becanfe — _—- Wate Tvo/ans :to entertaine this latter, inuited and daunger- Jeffe,reprochfull,becaufe we are Trotans, Ah ( 4Eneasyhaue we {hipped our Gods from home to be witneffes of our wan- tonnefie here ? Beleeue me better had it beene we had died in —- Phrygiasmen,than to liue thusin Affrike like women, Confi- _ deralfo the place whereinto we are now brought, andthen ' conceiue of the poffibilitie of our here abode : {hal I rel thee? __-were there not (if in the meane while no other Accident q Ale CO michoo S com |