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

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“And here the Painters who in Art prevail, pardie, had many painted and portray’d; but fail their pencils and their colours, fail prize, praise, and premium, of Art’s life the bread. Fault of the vices flowing from th’ entail of men degen’erate, who so far have stray’d from valour’s paths where trod their lustrous sires, deep mired in vanities and low desires.

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