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Then he:
“O Nation! who by Nature’s hand was ’stablished neighbour to my natal nide, what mighty Chance, what Destiny’s command upon such voyage drave you far and wide? Not causeless, no; though darkly, deeply plan’d from unknown Minho, distant Tagus-tide, your course o’er Oceans aye by keel unplow’d to Reigns such distance and such dangers shroud.