Take me, please, take me!

Introduction

When this simple but beautiful gem appeared, the plague was raging in Europe, Shakespeare's plays were first being performed, work on the King James Bible was just beginning, and Kepler was observing the skies.

The problem

A. Salvio, 1604

White to move and draw.

(Solution appears below.)

Solution

Outro

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