Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 69 of 400
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# This Page: Running Prose from a Narrative Poem This is a page of printed verse narrative from *Albion's England*, presenting Chapter X. The text describes, in archaic Early Modern English poetry, an elderly impoverished woman—a "Grandame"—whose physical decline is rendered in grotesque detail: sunken eyes, lean cheeks, protruding chin, toothlessness, white hair or baldness, and wrinkled skin. The passage explains that despite her infirmity and loss of all five senses, she possesses money that makes her attractive to a young man who courts her for her dowry rather than love, while she becomes besotted with him in return.
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