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

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Nor him who, holding ’tis but just and right, his King’s severest orders to fulfil, holds it not Justice fitly to requite the servile brows that weary sweat distil: Nor him whose bosom, lacking pract’ical light, seeketh for causes, and by prudent skill taxeth with niggard heart and hand unfair, the toils of aliens which he doth not share.

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