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

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Think not, ah no, my Nymphs! I would enfame the man who dares his country and his King forget for private int’erest’s pit’iful claim, by law of God and Man a felon thing. Nor poor ambition, whose degraded aim is to win office, shall my Song e’er sing, whose only object in th’ ignoble prize is larger range of Vice and Infamies.

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