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# Page Description This is running prose text from the body of a Victorian-era historical narrative (page 348, marked "An Addition to the Second Booke" at the top). The page recounts classical legend: Aeneas defeats and kills Turnus in single combat over the prize of Lavinia's hand and the kingdom of Latium; Aeneas then marries Lavinia and rules until his death, after which his son Ascanius inherits; later, Lavinia bears a posthumous son named Silvius, to whom Ascanius cedes the kingdom, and from whom descend all subsequent Latin kings. The passage concludes by introducing Brutus, Silvius's son, who—after accidentally killing his father—sails with Trojan descendants to an island called Albion.
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