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

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“ ‘And to the first illustrious Leader whom Fame’s favour raiseth till he touch the skies, I will give novel and eternal tomb, by the dark sentence of a God all-wise: Here of hard Turkish fleet that dree’d his doom, he shall depose the prideful prosp’erous prize; here shall at length my wrath and wrack surpass a Quíloa in ruins and a rent Mombasah.

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