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# Analysis of This Page This page contains running verse prose from *Albions England*, Book 2, Chapter 11. The text is a narrative poem in early modern English addressing a friend about matters of love and desire. It appears to recount a story involving Jupiter, a character named Calisto confined to a nunnery, and a figure (possibly disguised) who pursues her—references suggest classical mythological material adapted into English verse. The language concerns romantic pursuit, religious devotion, and the tension between love and chastity, with the narrator defending Jupiter's constancy toward his "first" love despite her withdrawal from the world.
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~~: on) oe ip il i am J i “ALBIONS ONCE: AND. b: A friend (ah friendleffe name I Friend? ) it being as itis, ec A friend I fay,much more a foe,and more,and worfethanthis, ‘I The fonne of Saturne{hould,and thall,that fpeed and hearing miffe. ‘Moe rid,ah rid mine.eyes of teares and fet my hartat reft, b By taxing life not making Loue the former likes mebeft,. _ Or, if that poore Cab/fos life fall lengthen to her wo, -Graone tha among Dianas Nunnes a Votarie Igo: _ For neither fits itnow to loue,or ever fhall it fo. , 3 q What viewed Jupiter this while,not pleafing to his fight 2 ~ Or what vaviewed did he gefle,not adding to delight: : , Not excellent,but exquifite,wasalltomindeandeye: - Sane the,the hanfell of this loue,did him of Lone denie. i “I ereeues that Natures Paragon in Cloifter,not in Court, , - Should loofe the beautie of her youth, and he thereby his {port. — Burconftantin her chatt pretence,he grants that would gain-fay, _ And, feated in religion now,with Phebe did the ftay. . Blame Iupiter of other Loues,of this doe fet him cleete : _ Ttwas his firft,and firtt is firme,and toucheth verie neere, rie might forgoe sbut notforget Cads#o in her Cell, b “When, fetting higher thoughts apart, the Frithes did pleafe him well: | Hetakes his Quiuer and his ‘Bow,and wheare fhe hunts hunts hee, And facrificed to his eyes that day he did her fee: : 4 About the Chafe, Toyles, Dogs and Bowes,the Stand, Quartie and all | He vfeth double diligence: fo often did befall, } Not onely fight of her his Sainthe got,but aie talke, 4 Whil& thus for his Caliitos loue jhe haunted Phabes walle: — Bar fightand talke accrew to loue,the fubftance muft be had: _ And for to bring his drift about,he virgin-like is clad. His nonage kept his beard from bloome,nowench more faire the he, ~ Whom at her Nunnerie a Nunne Diana takes to be, | "0. Mi fad with his Sith brotherly doo oy him to agree. Ms, § i; Sern Re = ~ i -. . ae, * ~ — st, ~ ’ en - nies sean y— — = = a - GOmiGoooks_col