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“Fate hath determinèd in olden time, that conquests, fit the self of Fame t’ outface, these Portingalls shall claim in ev’ery clime where India rears her war-ennobled race: Shall only I, the son of sire sublime, I, whom such gen’erous gifts and guerdons grace, suffer that favouring Fate success assure to men whose labours shall my name obscure?