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“Passeth no tedious time, before the great Prince a dure Siege in Guimaraens dree’d by passing pow’er, for to ’mend his state, came the fell en’emy, full of grief and greed:
But when committed life to direful Fate, Egas, the faithful guardian, he was free’d, who had in any other way been lost, all unpreparèd ’gainst such ’whelming host.