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A68064	Bacchus bountie describing the debonaire dietie of his bountifull godhead, in the royall obseruance of his great feast of Pentecost. Necessarie to be read and marked of all, for the eschuing of like enormities. By Philip Foulface of Ale-foord, student in good felloship.	Foulface, Philip.	1593 (1593)	STC 11208; ESTC S105623	12,419	24

BACCHVS BOVNTIE Describing the debonaire dietie of his bountifull godhead in the royall obseruance of his great feast of Pentecost Necessarie to be read and marked of all for the eschuing of like enormities Faecundi calices quem non fecere disertum By Philip Foulface of Ale-foord student in good felloship AT LONDON Printed for Henry Kyrkham and are to be solde at his shop at the little north dore of Paules Church at the signe of the black Boy 1593. To the right worthie and renowmed Roister Sir Richard Swash Lorde and Master on mount Maluorn cheefe controller on Salisburie plaine keeper of Accounts-in the Cart-way chiefe Foster in the forest of Dalamere high Generall of the Downes Baron of Birlip hill Sergeant of the Shoares and Sea side and Vicar of the Vallies your dayly Orator Philip Foulface wisheth all health wealth might long life and prosperous successe in all your affaires and enterprises where so euer WHen Iupiters head was great with childe and the time of trauaile nere at hand he skorning to complaine yet put to his shiftes was faine to send for Vulcan the Smith to crase his crowne with a downedriuing blow not only to cause the swelling to cease but also to prouide passage for the birth of his babe Which thing when Vulcan had performed in giuing him a sound pat on the pate out start Pallas at the opening of his head and danced before him so maiden-like that the present sight so pleasant expelled all former paines in the birth Euen so most worthie sir when the confused Chaos of this matter following was first inhabitant in my witlesse head then feared I no such swellings as since I did feele nor regarded those throwes which now are ouerpast Neuerthelesse when my braines fell to their busines and began to beate as tho my head had been ready to burst disdaining withall the help of mother Crackfart the Midwife Iuno Lucina was as deafe as a dishclout so that Volens nolens I betooke my selfe to the hearbe Hellebore whose pleasant operation produced so present a purgation that forthwith there followed a most speedie deliuerance excluding cares renuing ioy This young impe thus borne being brought to the font was named Bacchus Bounty Which Bounty I willingly offer vnto your worthines doubting not at all but that you will highly accept of him not only because he is a bonny boy and the gift of a welwiller but also because hee was begot by Bacchus your welbeloued friend conceaued by me nourished euer since with the iuice of the grape From Ale-foorde this 9. of December Anno Dom. 1592. Bounden to your bignes Philip Foulface Philip Foulface to the courteous Reader SO many men some say so many mindes The brauest Gnatho cannot but offend Mens mindes doe wauer like vnconstant windes Hard then sometimes to please our dearest friend Some hungrie curre may bark aboue the rest But please or displease I haue done my best He that delights to heare of mortall warres Is too austere to reade this little booke But he that ioyes to heare of good ale iarres I licence him with leaue herein to looke Here gentle reader maiest thou finde great sport To ease thy cares if hither thou resort And welcome all which reade and meane none ill No further ill than I and welcome all A mery minde to mirth enclineth still If waightie causes doe not backward call Be mery then reade here and doe not spare And welcome still here is no better fare FINIS Philip Foulface BACCHVS BOVNTIE Describing the debonaire dietie of his bountifull godhead in the royall obseruance of his great feast of Pentecost Quint. Allicit externas praesuaui nectare gentes Polit. non mollia pleno Desunt vina cado THe groutheaded Graecians especiallie the annointed Achiues I meane the Beziladistes those deuout doctors of Lob libers canne these I say with their knightlike crue thought it an high assumption to be as fathers in a frolicke feaste or as base borne brothers in bickering with the broth of bountifull Bacchus Which coppernosed crue the Knuckledebunions of Rome so assaulted with a fresh Canuazado the citie of Vinosa that the alarum of the Romans brake Nectars necke head and shoulders in so much that Vesta in great outrage rushed out of a rocke and dedicated to swéet father Bacchus as Crimson a colour as was then séene in her péereles peticote most fragrantlie fuming vp vnto Bacchus and likewise into the nostrills of all his nosled nouises wheresoeuer This newfound Sacrifice in this sort offered to this bursten-bellied God lent such a swéet sent to the rest of the gods and goddesses especially to platter-faced Iupiter that presently he appeased their furie mitigated the afore offered iniurie renued Nectar to former iollitie sent out Mercurie as Ambassadour to parle with Neptune rector of the Seas that Triton his trustie trumpeter should sound along from shoare to shoare throughout the whole worlde the blessed bountie of Bacchus Mercury discharging himselfe and Triton by commaundement of his king tied to the aforesaid chardge with clattering clang he thundred out such ioyfull newes that not only mount AEtna yeelded forth fierie flames in signification of sodaine ioyes but also Olympus merily mounted in hope that Permessus that pleasant spring should bée somewhat tainted with the swéet taste of so louely a liquor The decréed tidings of Iupiter are worde by worde in effect as followe PAsse Mercury to Neptunes brinish bowers My wish my will in hast to him vnfolde Let Tryton scale those hiest fleeting towers In Bacchus praise let all his tale be tolde Let him commaund the Curists change their liues In vaine striues he with Bacchus brood which striues The Bacchanals hence forth shall beare the sway With help of Hypocrites they shall doe well This gift I giue it shall be as I say Their forwardnes in fraies shall beare the bell I giue them right to sweare it out with wordes I giue them might to swash it out with swordes I will that these the auncient order holde Th'order of knighthood neuer to decay The greatest soakers shalbe least controulde Each Tyro shall of Nectar make his pray And whose conceipts God Bacchus deemes the best Shall haue a rich reward aboue the rest Come Ganimedes come with christall cups Some nappie Nectar bring me here in place Accurst be he which Nectar only sups And turns not ouer pot by pot apace Accurst be he which after Ceres gapes And shunnes to sucke the sugred sappe of grapes In griefe liue they with carkes of cares opprest Which leaue their liquor and away depart Till Bacchus haue them crowned with his crest Whose force expelles all sorrowes from the hart With Viuat Bacchus let the Ocean ring The same let Africk Asia and Europe sing Now Eccho the babbling nymph at the sound of Tritō hauing intelligence hereof resounded this decrée so mightilie towards the maine that it easily entred into the hearing of all the inhabitants in euery hauen And euen as