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To Bacchus.
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(O Muse) whose Voice, all loftiest Echoes raises;
And He with all th'illustrous seede of Ioue;
Is ioinde in honor: being the fruite of Loue
To him, and Semele-the-great-in-graces:
And from the King, his Fathers kinde embraces,
By faire-hayrde Nymphs, was taken to the Dales
Of Nyssa; and with curious Festiuals
Giuen his faire Grought; far from his Fathers view,
In Caues, from whence, eternall Odors flew.
And in high number of the Deities plac't;
Yet, when the many-Hymne-giuen God, had past
His Nurses Cares; in Iuies, and in Bates
All ouer Thicketed; his varied waies
To syluan Couerts, euermore he tooke
With all his Nurses; whose shrill voices shooke