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“ ‘Since the dark secrets com’st thou here to ’spy of Nature and her humid element, which from Man’s highest lore deep hidden lie, on noble or immortal mission sent; from me the Terrors which ye dare defy hear now, the sequence of thy rash intent, o’er ev’ery largest Sea, o’er ev’ery Land which still thy cruel conquest shall command.

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