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The Lusiad

Note 620 — BOOK X.

William Julius Mickle translation

O'er blood-stain'd ground.—This is as near the original as elegance will allow—de sangue cheyo—which Fanshaw has thus punned:—

"With no little loss, Sending him home again by Weeping-Cross"—

a place near Banbury in Oxfordshire.

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