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# Page Description This is a page of running verse text from *Albions England*, Chapter 12, Book 2 (page 58). The text is poetry in early modern English, describing various historical and legendary military figures—Hercules, Caesar, Hannibal, Cyrus, and others—and their conquests and character. The passage celebrates a common soldier who established virtuous rule and removed tyrants, contrasting peaceful governance with warfare, and concludes with the narrator undertaking to revive the story of this "monster-Master Hercules, this Tyrant Tamer" who has died. The page contains no illustrations, only dense printed verse in period typography.
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