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A25322	Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek; Anacreontea. English.	Anacreon.; Willis, Francis, b. 1663 or 4.; Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.; Oldham, John, 1653-1683.; Wood, Thomas, 1661-1722.; S. B.	1683 (1683)	Wing A3046; ESTC R7394	26,176	130

even my own work and account it my happier Rival nor could I propose to my self any other means of satisfaction then by wishing they would by a kind Metonymie accept the Author for his Book S. B. The Life of ANACREON ANACREON was a Poet famous for Lyriques amongst the Graecians and according to Strabo an Inhabitant of the City Teios whence he took the denomination of Te●…us and whence we read in Ovid Teia Mu●… about whose Parents the Antiquarians are of different Opinions and seem dubious on whom to confer that Honour Some would have his Father to be Scythinus others Eumelus others say his name was Parthemus or Aristocritus I shall not therefore endeavour to reconcile these differences but were I to guess at his Genealogy byass'd by the delicious Wantonness of his Stile I should be apt to conjecture that Bacchus had sometime stoln the Marriage-Sweets of Venus and palliated his crime with this off-spring His life was a continued Scene of Delight and his Body seemed instead of a Soul to be informed with nothing but Love He was much enslaved with the Masculin Love of a Beautiful Boy named Bathyllus as we may easily apprehend by his often mentioning of him throughout his whole Book as also by that of Horace Non aliter Samio dicunt arsisse Bathyllo Anacreonta Teium Nor was he less enamoured with the powerful charms of his Mistress Eurypile for whose affection he determined his Genious so to Love-Verses that Cicero says of him His Poetry is all ore a treatise of Amours Which I am apt to imagine a mistake knowing that Bacchus equally shares in it and he never separated those two chief Ingredients of an Epicurean's happiness Women and Wine To the Latter of these he seemed to owe all his Enthusiasm all the youthful vigour of his Old Age he was so actuated so enlivened with this as if when his own Spirits decayed Those of Wine became vital He was much addicted to the vice of Drinking whence he was reproachfully entituled by some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Athenians as Pansanias relates in his description of Greece erected his Statue in a Drunken posture There goes a very pleasant Story of him that once having took a Cup too much of the Creature he came staggering homewards through the Market place and ●…eeling against a Nurse with a Child in her Arms named Cleobulus he had almost beat her down nor did he c●…ave her pardon for this Offence but injured her as much afterwards wich a scornful hectoring reply upon which the Nurse begged that the Justice of Heaven would take it into consideration and prayed that he might be hereafter with all the Tyranny of af●…ectionate Passion as much endeared to the Child ●…s now he abhorred it Now after Cleobulus was past his Infancy he ●…ecame so strangely beautiful that Nature seem●…d extravagant in bestowing all her charms upon ●…ne face and the Gods being mindful of the ●…urse's request inflicted upon Anacreon the sweet●…evenge ●…evenge of Love as appears in some of his mai●…ed pieces where he draws up this Petition to ●…he God of Love Tu propitius ●…neras exaudi preces Fave Cleobulo suscipe amorem meum But Athenaeus is of Opinion that this Poet was not so much given to debauchery and seems ●…o clear him from the crime of Drunkenness when he says 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 10. Dei●… Fol. 429. that he onely played the Counterfeit as much in composing his drunken Songs as I have in translating them As for the other part of his Verses those L●…es of Love and b●…s for delight they seem by a kind of Sympathy to be co●…le to his Life and maintain an equal Correspondence with Mitth and Pleasure so that by the lusciousness of his Stile and neatness of Wit he got himself no small repute amongst the Ancients some of which dignified him with the title of the delicious Anacrean the Honey-Poet And Plato though a very nice Philosopher who allows of no pleasure but that in the Abstract who terms the gross enjoyment of the sensual Appetite a Brute delight ●…nd accounts that refined bliss the Marriage of Souls a property onely entailed on Rationalls yet he was so overswayed with the Poetical Philtres of of Anacreon as to sign his approbation of a more substantial delight in gratifying the Senses and abandon that aerie notion of pleasure as a shadow of Solid joy a mere creature of ●…ancy when he calls this Author the wise Anacreon Whose Moralls tell us he was a great Abetter of Epicurism he placed his Summum Bonum in the gross embraces of delight and all his Actions tended to that as to their Centre he pronounced to his Mind the Poets Requiem Aetate fruere Enjoy thy Life and if any hour slipped away without Mirth he accounted it mispent and himself guilty of the crime of Idleness he abandoned all gravity and Wisdom as bold Incroachers upon the liberties of Pleasure Business was a mere stranger to his mind nor did ever the turbulent thoughts of that discompose the calmness of his Breast Nay what most of all commands our Admiration is that when he was under the severe Discipline of Age when nothing is becoming but to be Morose and commence a Dissenter in Jollity to see how Love overpower'd all these Tyrants and a Smile could pry out some kind cranies to peep through his wrinkled looks how he could be capable at this Winter of his Life to be inflamed with Love As if Nature had priviledg'd in him a familiar Society a friendly Neighbourhood betwixt two Contraries Heat and Cold. I am apt methinks now to credit the theft of Prometheus or subscribe to the tenet os Heraclitus Physicus that his Soul owed its being to fire when I see it so often flash out in wanton sparks of Love and betray the flame within when he writes with all the heat of Passion But t is said besides these Love-Songs he composed several Elegies and Iambicks and several other Pieces of Poetry which the World hath not been so happy to retain The time he lived in is ambiguons Eusebius records it in the LXI Olympiad Suidas in the LXII and makes him Cotemporary with Polycrates a Tyrant at Samos His Verse so mollified the harsh temper of that Prince and as it were civilized his brutal Disposition that he became no small favourite of his But others are of Opinion that he flourished under the Reign of Cyrus and Cambyses and that not being able to suffer the Tyranny of the Persians he betook himself to Abdera a City in Thrace whose sometime inhabiting there might attone for the Epidemical Disease of that people Dullness here he long time enjoyed the sweets of a quiet Life attended with content and mirth the gay retinue of a Poet and in the LXXXVth year of his Age died being choaked with a Grape-stone upon whose death we have this Elegy out of Caelius ATte Sancte Senex a●…us sub Tartara misit