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

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“They hold a Prophet’s Law who was begot sinless, nor stained with carnal detriment His Virgin-Mother; Him the Breath they wot of God who holdeth Earth in government. But what my sires ancestral ne’er forgot, of them, is Valour fierce, sanguinolent in arms, that on their arm resplendent gloweth, as many a Geste with our forefathers showeth.

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