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

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Scipios and Caesars giveth Lusia-land, gives Alexanders and Augusti gives; but she withal may not the gifts command whose want rears rough and ready working-lives: Octavius, prest by Fortune’s heaviest hand, with compt and learned verse her wrong survives. Nor, certès, Fulvia shall this truth deny, Gláphyra’s wit entrapt her Anthony.

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