Ouyde, enshryned with the Musis nyne;

But blessed Bacchus, the pleasant god of wyne,

Of closters engrosyd with his ruddy flotis[1570]

These orators and poetes refresshed there throtis;

Lucan,[1571] with Stacius in Achilliedos;

Percius presed forth with problemes diffuse;

Virgill the Mantuan, with his Eneidos;

Iuuenall satirray, that men makythe to muse; 340

But blessed Bacchus, the pleasant god of wyne,

Of clusters engrosed with his ruddy flotes