Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 366 of 400
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# Page Description This is a page of running prose narrative text from what appears to be a classical or pseudo-classical tale. The page (numbered 344) describes Turnus, Prince of the Rutiles, holding a council to plot against Aeneas and win the hand of Lavinia through war and deception. The narrative then recounts how Ascanius and Trojan companions accidentally hunt and wound a tame stag belonging to a man named Tyrrhus; the stag flees to the hall of a young gentlewoman named Sylvia (or Ilia), who has long cared for the animal and swoons upon seeing it injured. She vows revenge. The text is densely set in early modern English typography with italicized proper names.
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