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

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Return the Moormen bearing from the land the Royal licence, with the Christian pair, that disembarkèd by our Chief’s command, for whom the King feign’ed honest friendship fair: The Portingall, assured no plot was plan’d, and seeing scanty fear of scathe or snare when Christian peoples in the place abode, to stem the salty river straightway stood.

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