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

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Upon these ships firm hopes the Moors had set, e’en as their puissance was so much the higher, that these who sought their gains so grateful great, they might consume with crepitating fire: For the good succour all confiding wait, and from th’ Explorers naught they now require, save to retard their sailing in such sort, that the famed Meca-fleet should make the port.

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