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

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Her purple awnings and her banners shine with the rich tissue which the worm hath made; whereon appear portray’d with rare design the warlike actions of the mighty Dead: Here show fierce accidents of ’battled line, and there fere single-fights, a scene of dread, wherefrom the Géntoo seeking all to ’spy may not withdraw the pleasure of his eye.

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