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He sees, while Indus he of yore hath tamèd, Fortune or favou’ring chance had aye denied to hear him India’s conqueror acclaimèd by bardic men who drain Parnassus’ tide:
And now he dreadeth lest a name so famèd be doomed for ever in the mire to hide of Lethe-fountain, if on Inde debark these vagueing Portingalls so strong and stark.