“My song shall spread where ever there are men,
If wit and art will so much guide my pen.”

— Luís de Camões

Cantando espalharei por toda parte,
Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.

Stanza 2, lines 7–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe, 1655)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I

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Cantando espalharei por toda parte, Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.

Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I

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