The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Bacchus

by Homer

To Bacchus.

vie-Crown'd Bacchus, Iterate in thy Praises,
(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
Thickets, in which, could no footes Entrie fall;
And he himself made Captaine of them All.
 And so (O Grape-abounding Bacchus) be
 Euer saluted by my Muse, and Me.
 Giue us to spend with spirit, our Howres out here;
 And euery Howre, extend to many a Yeare.

 

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