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

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They wend to seek and send her on in state, to blow her trumpet of the clearest strain; and so the wandering Braves to celebrate, as never mortals could such praises gain: Now Fame, with murm’uring sounds that penetrate, flies through the deepest grottos of the Main: and scatt’ereth Truth believèd true to be; for Fame’s own gossip is Credulity.

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