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

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Thy claim to conquer Christian lands beseems one who so much and such fair land doth claim? why seek not Cinyps and the Nilus, streams which ever hate that ántique Holy Name? There should they feel of steel the hard extremes, who would the Church’s truthful song defame: Of Charles, of Louis, name thou didst inherit and lands;⁠—why not of justest wars the merit?

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