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

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There, where the City crowns the Red Sea bight founded by Egypt’s royal Ptolemy, and from his sister-spouse Arsin’oe hight, to Suez changèd in our modern day; the harbour lieth at a distance light from far-famed Meca, raised to high degree by the false superstition and profane, the Holy Water of the Moorish men.

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