That would be a fragment. Its not a complete sentence
You can copy as much as you want Just remember, the more you copy, the more you must rephrase the words.
<span>There was a proud and very profane young man... But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard.
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