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

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“No Pyrates we, who fare on ports to prey, and purse-proud cities that in war be weak; thieves, who with fire and steel the peoples slay, their robber-greed on neighbour-goods to wreak: From haughty Europe to the realms of Day we sail, and Earth’s remotest verge we seek of Inde, the great, the rich, for thus ordaineth the mighty Monarch who our country reigneth.

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