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

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Naked his body, and of cloth are clear his loins, to swim without impediment; yet pygmy sea-things clothe with sea-born gear his limbs, in hundred hundreds spread and sprent; with shrimps, and crabs, and many such small deer which from cool Phoebe take their increment; oysters, and moss-fouled mussels, while each rib glistens with periwinkles glazed and glib.

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