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

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“But, when ’twas wholly filled, and fully fed, withdrawn the footing planted on the Main, athwart the welkin pouring floods it fled, with water bathing ’jacent watery plain; and all the waves it suckt in waves it shed; wherein no salty savour mote remain. Now let our Sages deft in Script expose what mighty secrets these which Nature shows.

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