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# What's on This Page This is a page of running prose poetry from *Albion's England*, Chapter 5. The text, presented in early modern English verse, narrates a mythological episode: Queen Juno entreats Thorne (apparently Hercules) to slay three lions that have devastated the countryside near Nemea. The passage describes Hercules and Philoctes seeking the lions in a forest, where a terrified herdsman warns them from a tree of the beasts' deadly power. The page ends as the three lions charge toward Hercules, who escapes by climbing.
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