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cause_n	blood_n	body_n	wine_n	1,436	5	7.7621	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57657	Mel heliconium, or, Poeticall honey gathered out of the weeds of Parnassus divided into VII chapters according to the first VII letters of the alphabet : containing XLVIII fictions, out of which are extracted many historicall, naturall, morall, politicall and by Alexander Rosse ...	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1962; ESTC R21749	84,753	182

use of wine THE MYSTERIES BY Bacchus is ordinarily meant Wine which is the fruit of Semele that is of the Vine so a called because it shakes the limmes for no liquor so apt to breed palsies as wine ashes because hot make good dung for Vines therefore Bacchus is said to proceed of his mothers ashes and to be cherished in Iupiters thigh because the Vine prospers best in a warme aire and in a soile most subject to thunder which is caused by heat which is most fervent and thunders most frequent in July and August when the grapes do ripen He was bred in Egypt because a hot aire and mellow soile as Aegypt is is fittest for wine and because moisture is required for the increase of wine therefore he was said to be nursed by the Hyades and Nymphs Hee subdued the Indians either because wine makes resolute souldiers or because most countries are subdued with excessive drinking and abuse of wine and indeed Bacchus may weare the Diadem for he doth triumph over all nations of all sorts of people and professions there be few that with Lycurgus will oppose him his Thirsus reacheth farther than any Kings Scepter or the Roman Fasces if we would see his Orgia or sacrifices his Priests or a Maenades his Panthers Tigers and Lynces with which his chariot is drawen the Satyrs and Sileni his companions with their Cymbals and vociferations we shall not need to go far he never had greater authority over the Jndians than he hath over this Kingdom he once slept three years with Proserpina but we will not let him rest one day The Thebans tore Orpheus for bringing in Bacchus his sacrifices among them and Icarius was thought to have brought in poyson when he brought in wine but the case is otherwise with us if any discommend the excesse of wine he shall have Alcithoes doome she for discommending Bacchus was turned into a Bat and he shall be accounted no better yet I discommend not the moderat use of wine which is Iupiters sonne or the gift of God for it strengthens the body comforts the heart breeds good bloud for which cause Bacchus was alwayes young for wine makes old men look young if it be moderate otherwise it makes them children for so Bacchus is painted he had also both a virgins and a bulls face hee was both male and female sometimes hee had a beard and sometimes none to shew the different effects of wine moderatly and immoderatly taken he was worshipped on the same altar with Minerva and was accompanied with the Muses to shew that wine is a friend to wisdome and learning Mercury carried him being a child to Macris the daughter of Aristaeus who anointed his lips with honey to shew that in wine is eloquence and so likewise the naked truth therefore Bacchus is alwayes naked and if Amphisbaena the Serpent that is sorrow or care bit the heart let Bacchus kill him with a vine-branch wine refines the wit therefore the quick sighted Dragon was consecrated to Bacchus and to shew that much pratling was the fruit of wine the chattering Pye was his bird And because wine makes men effeminat therefore women were his priests he slept three yeares with Proscrpina to shew that Vines the first three yeares are not fruitfull he was turned unto a Lion to shew the cruelty of drunken men he was torne by the Titans buried and revived againe for small twigs cut off from a vine and set in the earth bring forth whole vines He was called a Liber because wine makes a man talk freely and freeth the mind from cares and maketh a man have free and high thoughts it makes a begger a gentleman a Dionysus from stirring up the mind he was the first that made bargains and so it seems to be true by the Dutch-men who wil make no bargains till they be well liquored 2. Bacchus is the Sun who is both Liber and Dionysus free from all sublunary imperfections and freeth the world from darknesse and inconveniencies of the night and pricks forward the mindes of men to their daily actions he is still yong not subject to age and decay naked for he makes all things naked and open to the eye of the author of generation of all things as well as of wine the son of Iupiter because he is a part of heaven and of burned Semela because they thought that the Sun was of a fiery matter he dyeth and reviveth again when after the cold winter he recollects his heat strength and vigour his sleeping with Proserpina sheweth his abode under our Hemisphaer the wilde beasts which accompany him sheweth the extremity of heat with which beasts are exasperated he is a friend to the Muses for by his influence our wits are refined a destroyer of Amphisbaena that is the winter which stings with both ends for at its coming and going it breeds diseases and distempers in our bodies he was painted sometimes like a childe sometimes like a man because in the winter the dayes are short and his heat weak but in summer his heat is strong and dayes are long he is cloathed with the spotted skin of a Deer to shew his swiftnesse and multitude of Stars with which he seems to be covered at night the travels of Bacchus do shew the motion of the Sun 3. Originall sin like Bacchus received life by the death of Eva who for her disobedience was struck with the thunder of Gods wrath and it hath been fomented by Adams thigh that is by generation this unruly evil hath travell'd farther then Bacchus did and hath an attendance of worse beasts then Tygers Panthers c. to wit of terrours and of an evil conscience and actuall sins it hath subdued all mankinde and as Bacchus turning himself unto a Lyon made all the mariners in the ship wherein he was carried leap into the Sea so this sin turned us all out of Paradise unto the Sea of this world 4. Christ is the true Dionysius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the minde of God the internall Word of the Father born of a woman without mans help as the Graecians fable their Bacchus to be and yet they give a credit to their figment and not unto our truth he is Liber who makes us onely free the great King who hath subdued all Nations whose Diadem is glory He hath kill'd Amphisbaena the Devil the two-headed Serpent his two stings are sin and death with the one he hath wounded our souls with the other our bodies he triumpheth over all his foes his body was torn with thorns nails and whips and went down to hell but he revived and rose again he is the true friend of wisdom and learning and who hath given to us a more comfortable wine then the wine of the grape that wine which we shall drink new with him in his Kingdom his lips were truly anointed with honey grace was diffused in them and never man spake