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

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“Oh the great Portingall-fidelity of Vassal self-devote to doom so dread! What did the Persian more for loyalty whose gallant hand his face and nostrils shred? When great Darius mourned so grievously that he a thousand times deep-sighing said, far he prefer’d his Zóp’yrus sound again, than lord of twenty Babylons to reign.

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