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“The Lusitanick toils well hast thou ken’d, whom I for ages watch with tenderest guise. Since sware the Parcae unto me, their friend, they shall adore my name, my favour prize; and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise some mode of aidance in what things I may, far as our force o’er man extendeth sway.