Penny Dreadfuls, 1602 · page 80 of 400
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# Albions England, Chapter 12, Book 2 This is a page of running verse prose from what appears to be a narrative poem. The text recounts mythological/legendary British history, specifically describing King Faunus's wife Marica (also called Faena), who fell in love with Hercules, and the subsequent military conflict involving various classical figures including Picus, Thebane, and others. The verse describes battles, oaths, and supernatural consequences, written in early modern English poetic style with archaic spelling and formatting typical of sixteenth or seventeenth-century publication.
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