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

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“This, who with graver gait and gesture came, thus from a distance to the Monarch crieth: ‘O thou! whose sceptre and whose crown shall claim, of Earth a mighty part that guarded lieth; we twain, who fly through mouths of men by Fame, we, whose untamèd neck man’s yoke defieth, warn thee, O King! ’tis time to send commands, and raise large tribute from our natal lands.

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