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

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Look how they gladly wend by many a way, with raging Bulls’ or rampant Lyons’ might, self-doomed to sleepless night and foodless day, to fire and steel, shaft-show’er and bullet-flight: To torrid Tropicks, Arcticks frore and grey, the Pagan’s buffet and the Moor’s despight; to risks invis’ible threating human life, to wrack, sea-monsters and the waves’ wild strife.

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