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

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“Entitled Brahmins are their ghostly race, time-honour’d title of high eminence: His far-famed precepts, eke, they still embrace who first to Science lent a modest sense: A living thing to kill they hold as base, such be from ev’ery flesh their abstinence: Only in joys venereal their delight hath more of licence and a laxer rite.

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