[266]In baskets thus up-piled, the cluster’d grapes,

Or black or pearly-white, cut from deep ranks

Of spreading vines, whose tendrils curling twined

In silver, heavy-foliaged: near them rose

The ranks of vines, by Vulcan’s curious craft

Figured in gold. The vines leaf-shaking curl’d

Round silver props. They therefore on their way

Pass’d jocund to one minstrel’s flageolet,

Burthen’d with grapes that blacken’d in the sun.

Some also trod the wine-press, and some quaff’d