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

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“Gainsay I not, that some of high descent from wealthy houses, men of gen’erous strain, still with their noble lives and excellent ’herited titles worthily sustain: And if the light which ancestry hath lent no novel glory by their doings gain, at least it faileth not, nor dim it groweth:⁠— But ah! few men like these the Painter knoweth.”

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