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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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“As when some lusty Bull would train and teach his limbs for cruel fight, with horns he playeth on trunk of builder-oak, or mast-like beech, and wounding empty air his might essayeth: Thus ere his keels Cambaya’s Gulf can reach Francisco, fierce with vengeful ardour preyeth on Dabul, op’ulent harbour, whets his brand and ’bates the tumid bragging of the land:

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