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# This Page: Running Prose Narrative This is a page of running prose verse from *Albions England*, a historical narrative poem. The text recounts the story of King Leir (King Lear), focusing on his mistreatment by his ungrateful children and his subsequent exile to Gallia, where his daughter Cordella receives him with kindness and care. The passage describes Leir's despair at his children's ingratitude, his journey abroad, Cordella's dutiful support, her marriage to a foreign king, and hints at future conflicts involving her nephews and a tyrannical mother. The verse uses archaic spelling and early modern English typography typical of period literature.
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Ay Ov LER apie Ge A ee ane My TT a OE SS a ; ' KY =) Py a ¥ 7 ut a i tA ¥ +, =~ . = ; ALBIONS ENGLAND, =" But Gororill at his returne,not onely did attempt Her fathers death but openly did hold him in contempt. __ Hisaged eyes powre out their teares,when holding vp his hands, _ Hefayd:O God,who fo thou art,that my good hap withitands, — - - Prolong not life deferre notdeath my felfe I ouer-liue, _ When thofe that owe to me their liues,to me my death would giue, - Thou Towné, whofe walles rofe of my welth ftand euermore to tell ~ Thy Founders fail,.and warne that none do fall as Zeir fell, _ Bidnone afite in Friends, for fay his Children wronght his wracke: Yea thofe,that were to him moftdeare, did lothe and let him Jacke, — Cordeila well Cordellafayd,the loued as a Child: | But {weeter words we feeke than footh,and fo are men beguild. | She onely refts vntryed yet: but what may Lexpect _ From her,to whom I nothing gaue,when thefe do mie reiect 2 _ Then dye,nay trye,the rule maye fayle,and nature may afcend : - Norarethey ever fureft friends on whom we moft doe {pend, ~ He fhips himfelfe to Galléa then : but maketh knowne before | Vnto Cordella his eftate, who rueth him fo poore, _Andkept his theare ariuall clof& till (he prouided had To furnifh him in euery want. Of him her King was elad, And nobly entertayned him : the Queene, with teares among, | (Her duetie done) conferreta with her father of his wrong, _ | Such duetie,bountie, kindnes,and increafing loue,he found ~ Inthat his Daughter and her Lord,that forrowes more abound - For his vnkindly vfing her,then for the others crime: — And King-like thus in C4gamps Court did Leir dwell,till time _ "The noble King his Sonne-in-lawe tran{ports an Armie preate - Of forcie Gawles,poflefiing him of difpoflefied Seate: . To whom Cordelladid fucceede, not raigning long in queate, . ~— Nothow her Nephewes warre on her,and one of them flew th’other — Shallfollowe: but Iwilldifclofeamofttyrannousmother, ’ pe 4 Ads i , » cae - es a le. ‘ + a + & ; . 3 as ) Fe Heomicbooks.com ' - ve