The Poets painted Bacchus naked, bare,
Because hee doth all secrets deepe disclose,
In woemen’s weede because men feebled are,
Effeminate them selues to wine dispose,
Like wanton childe likewise they faine hee goes,
As dronkerds wanton were though nere so olde,
Not wonne to sage and sober life with sowes of golde.
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But naked therefore I suppose hee’s faynde,
Because hee makes men naked, poore, and bare: