A PANEGYRICKE. 



For, Bacchus but for planting, first, those (a) Plants (a} Vines. 

 Whereby mens Wealth, and Witt are oft ore'throwne 

 Which wanton Nature rather craves, then wants, 

 They, as a God, with Gods do still enthrone. 



But let us Christians, though not yeeld Him this, 

 Yet give him Love and Honor due t* a Man, 

 That makes men live (like Gods) in Wealth, and Blisse, 

 And heave his Fame to Heaven if we can. 



Vaine Hanno taught his lesse vaine Birds to say 

 Hee was a God : and then he turn'd them loose 

 That they abroad might chaunt it still ; but they 

 (So gon) with silence prov'd their God, a Goose. 



Then, though no God he were, yet might He be 



A right (U) God-keeper in the Capitoil : (b] Geese (by 



They Geese (at most) and so (at least) was He; reason of 



Or, if ought lesse, his God-head was a Gull. lancyj kept 



the Pagan- 

 Gods in the 



But what I say, none taught me but thy Worth ; ^ oinair j e 



Nor shall it (like those Birds) thy Fame betray : 



But these my Lines shall then best sett thee forth 



When thou art worse then Wormes, and lesse then Clay. 



As well thy Crest, as Coat (6 wondrous thing !) 

 A Serpent is, about an Infants Necke : 

 Who was thine Ancestor, as Bards do sing, 

 So borne (alive) the Fates to counterchecke. 



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