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

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“To them ’twas erst, and well you wot it, given, albeit a Pow’r so single, simple, small, to see the doughty Moor from ’trenchments driven where gentle Tagus feeds and floods the vale: Then with the dreadful Spaniard have they striven, by boon of Heav’n serene ne’er known to fail; and urged their fortune’s ever-glorious claim to victor-trophies hung in fane of Fame.

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