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

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“Nor lack their reas’onings who would disconcert opinions firmly fixt in pop’ular will, whose weal of ancient valour is convèrt to an unusèd and disloyal ill: Men in whose hearts Fear, gelid and inert, reigneth, which faith and truth were wont to fill: Deny they King and Country; and, if tried, they had (as Peter did) their God denied.

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