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

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“ ‘But as my Ladye’s grace I could not gain for being homely, huge of form and face, I sware by forceful rape my want t’ obtain and so to Doris I disclosed my case: In dread she told her child my loving pain when modest Thetis, with her merry grace, replied:⁠—‘What Nymph can boast, whate’er her charms, the strength to wrestle in a Giant’s arms?

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