Beside me, drain dregs! Now for edification!

Whose gift have ye gulped? Thank not me but my brother,

Blithe Bacchus, our youngest of godships. 'T was he

Found all boons to all men, by one god or other

Already conceded, so judged there must be

New guerdon to grace the new advent, you see!

Else how would a claim to Man's homage arise?

The plan lay arranged of his mixed woe and weal,

So disposed—such Zeus' will—with design to make wise

The witless—that false things were mingled with real,