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And, eke, the Kings of mem’ory grand and glorious, who hied them Holy Faith and Reign to spread, converting, conquering, and in lands notorious, Africk and Asia, devastation made; nor less the Lieges who by deeds memorious brake from the doom that binds the vulgar dead; my song would sound o’er Earth’s extremest part were mine the genius, mine the Poet’s art.