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

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“Of such offences ever paid the pain many, whom God allowed or willèd He; those who fared forth to force the fair Helèn; Appius and Tarquin, eke, such end did see: Say, why should David of the saintly strain so blame himself? What felled th’ illustrious tree of Benjamin? Full well the truth design a Pharaoh for Sara, Sichem for a Dinah.

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