Nor do I sing for courtesy's sake with a taste for praising, but to make pure truths known about my former times. Would to God they were mere dreams. (Luís de Camões)

Nor do I sing for courtesy's sake with a taste for praising, but to make pure truths known about my former times. Would to God they were mere dreams.

Luís de Camões

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