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THE NAVAL OFFICER.
CHAPTER II.
First came great Neptune, with his three-forkt mace,
That rules the seas, and makes them rise or fall;
His dewy locks did drop with brine apace
Under his diademe imperiall:
And by his side his queene with coronall,
Faire Amphitrite ***
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These marched farre afore the other crew.
Spenser.
I Remained no longer at home than sufficed to restore my strength, after the serious attack of fever and ague which I had brought with me from Walcheren. Although my father received me kindly, he had not forgotten (at least I thought so) my former transgressions; a mutual distrust destroyed that intimacy which ought ever to exist between father and son. The thread
