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Worketh for this alone, as well he knew that, when sure tidings and clear proofs appear, arms, armour, ships, and men would send anew Mano’el, the King who rules the Realm sans peer; that to his yoke and law he would subdue the globèd earth, and e’en the wat’ery sphere; himself was nothing but the dil’igent hand that pioneer’d the road to Orient-land.