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

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Pomona’s choicest gifts spontaneous grow, and all in diff’erent taste and gust abound; no want of cult’uring hand these arbours know, withouten culture better fares the ground: Cherries with Tyrian tincture purpled glow; and Morus eke that mimicks Amor’s sound; while from her patrial Persia-land the Pome flourisheth fairer in her foreign home.

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