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

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“E’en as a ruddy Leech sometimes is seen fixt on the lips of beeve (that careless stood to drink on frigid fountain’s hem of green), slaking her fire of thirst with alien blood: Sucking, she rounds her form with hunger lean; and swills and swells till full of gory food: Thus the grand column greater volume gaineth itself, and heavier weight of cloud sustaineth.

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