Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 361 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a narrative work about classical subjects. The text recounts how a Wizard or Witch advised a Queen to burn the relics and armor of Aeneas—including his weapons, a Phrygian cup, bracelets, and ear-rings—as a sacrificial offering to infernal deities in order to extinguish her passion for him. The passage details the Queen's instructions to her sister Anna to gather faggots and garlands for the ritual, and includes the Queen's enumeration of the objects to be burned and her reasons for each item's destruction, presented in elaborate early modern English prose.
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— gh ry LA “peion : ‘andthen “ae fach haga Siucinny aud this a€tuallCataffrophe, © » A Wizard ot Witch(thetwo common Oracles of many ‘too credulent women ) had inftructed the Queene, thagan — Immolation or burnt Sacrifice, offered to the Infernal] Dei- -ties,ofthe Armour, Ornaments, and all whatfoeuer the Re- liques of t#Eneas left behinde: him at his departure from Carthage, woulde efteGually eftrangethe outrage of her paf- - fions,and extina in her the very. reniembrance of W4Eneas: This Counfell (either for that at the firft the beleeued it pof- fible,or for that oportunitie{ offered it felfeto practife the thing fhe did purpofe) £4/a entertaining , opened the fame to Aamnaher Sifter: who fimply vafufpitious of the fequell, prouided fecretly (as was giuen her in charge) a pyleofdry _ Faggots ,crowned with Garlands for the difmall Sacrifice: which and Ei ifaher felfe ina readinefle , 4Eneas his Ar- moour , beeing her eyes Obie , became i in this wife her , tongues Subieét. — 2 ~~ > - - — om * z - ? — . Bee oo eT eS ¢ : « : a —— - f, — + ce ah is Re a h a ae With this quoth the(eying the Atipiriche craking Tro- ian boafted 6 haue buckled with the gallant Diomedes, not _ feldometo haue offended the ‘defenceles Grecians, and after _-many loned blowes at the facking of Troy , valiantly to haue - boorded his thence-bent Nauie : this Armour profitable to _ my preiudice, there defenfiue to him, to be here offenfiue to “me, were it vnneceflarie to this Sactifice . (hould neuertheles burne for the fame trefpafie. This Cup, this Phrigian Cup, roo guilty of too many Tyrian draughts, Affiftants in for- ming me audacioufly amorous, (hall now occupy thefe cere- monial flames as the then Acceflary toa contrary fire. Thefe __ Bracelets, and thefe Ear-rings (bytoo often and officious: = fafined and loofed with begged and grauntedkifles, a- eryaia nowlefle precious by the giuer his practife) fhall " - alfo add Cinders tothe repentant payment of mine over ra- | tedpl leafure ened are remaining onely two Reliques of that L2 aescials book ae 7 ee -o-u — iil A i ng i ti pie ties . ms « ba ass fp A 4 4 i a. a ‘i 2 2 ek 7