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

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“ ‘Dost leave the foeman breeding at thy gate who wendest foreign far-off fone to seek; whereby this antique realm lies desolate; whose strength, o’erstretchèd, waxeth ruinous weak? Seekest thou dark and dubious chance of fate, who hearest Fame with honey’d accents speak, lauding thy lot, and hailing thee seignior of Inde, Perse, Arab and Aethiopia-shore?

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