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feats of Arms, and famed heroick Host,

from occidental Lusitanian strand,

who o'er the waters ne'er by seaman crost,

farèd beyond the Taprobáne-land,

forceful in perils and in battle-post,

with more than promised force of mortal hand;

and in the regions of a distant race

rear'd a new throne so haught in Pride of Place:

And, eke, the Kings of mem'ory grand and glorious,

who hied them Holy Faith and Reign to spread,

converting, conquering, and in lands notorious,

Africk and Asia, devastation made;

nor less the Lieges who by deeds memorious

brake from the doom that binds the vulgar dead;

my song would sound o'er Earth's extremest part

were mine the genius, mine the Poet's art.