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The Lusiad

Note 463 — BOOK VII.

William Julius Mickle translation

(For now the banquet on the tented plain, And sylvan chase his careless hours employ).—

The great Mogul, and other eastern sovereigns, attended by their courtiers, spend annually some months of the finest season in encampments in the field, in hunting parties, and military amusements.

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