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

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The boats appearèd in a manner new long-built and narrow-beamed, for swiftness plan’d; mats were the wings wherewith they lightly flew from certain palm-fronds wove by cunning hand: The people wore that veritable hue, Phaëton’s boon to many a burning land, when work’ed his rashness on the world such ills: So Padus knows and Lampethusa feels.

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