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

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“The branch-Device, thou see’st him bear in hand, is the green Thyrsus Bacchus wont to wield, which to our cent’ury doth belief command he was a comrade or belovèd child. See’st thou yon other treading Tagus-land, the Plow’er who long hath plow’d the wild Sea-field, where the perpetual walls he reared on high, and fane of Pallas for all memory?

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