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

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“What brood so harsh as this was ever bred? what barb’arous custom and what usage ban’d that can not only men from ports forbid but grudge the shelter of their desert sand? What of ill Will hold they our hearts have hid, that of a folk so few in fear they stand? That traps for us they spread and ready snares and work their worst whereby we die unwares?

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