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The Lusiad

Note 409 — BOOK VI.

William Julius Mickle translation

A shell of purple on his head he bore.—In the Portuguese—

Na cabeça por gorra tinha posta Huma mui grandé casco de lagosta.

Thus rendered by Fanshaw—

"He had (for a montera[413]) on his crown The shell of a red lobster overgrown."

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