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This page contains running verse text from *Albions England*, Book 2, Chapter 9. The speaker, apparently a woman, rejects romantic advances and declares her refusal to love. She argues against female submission to male suitors, asserts that opportunity rather than merit wins women's favor, and states she will remain unwilling until impossible conditions occur—until the sea flames, the sun freezes, and men cease to die. The verse is written in early modern English with archaic spelling and typography.

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