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

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“Not force but fraud she used, and underhand she filcht his life that cowed her coward sprite; for mighty straits make men of honest brand break the magnan’imous laws of Honour bright. This other here, against his angry land with us forgatherèd, an exiled wight: Right well chose he the men wherewith to rise, and of immortal lustre snatch the prize.

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