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

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Stanza 9 83

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Ah me! what hungry kissings wake the wood! What choirs in suavest unison acclaim! What pretty pettings! What coy pettish mood which pleasant laughter presently became! What Morn and Noontide saw and understood, as Venus joyed her lovers’ joys to ’flame, were better far t’ experience not to judge, yet judge it he whose Fate such boon shall grudge.

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