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# Page Description This is a page of running prose poetry from *Albions England* (Book 1, Chapter 4), not a Victorian penny dreadful as initially suggested, but rather an early modern English verse narrative. The text recounts in heroic couplets the story of Hercules' war against Troy—describing his vow of vengeance, his destruction of allied cities, the pitched battles between Greeks and Trojans, Hercules' prowess with his club that fells the Trojan forces, and the eventual sacking of Troy itself, with only the city of Ileon spared due to the tearful pleas of its ladies, while the false Laomedon flees and his son is taken captive to Greece.
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