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La estatua de Bacco.
Dialogo. Lettor. Bacco.[1]
TERCETOS.
L. Bacco di quien te viò,
que ansi pintarte
Con docta mano a’l natural te pudo?
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B. Aquel nombrado por su subtil arte
Praxiteles[2] me viò quando desnudo
Gozava de Ariadna,[3] y tal figura
Qual tuve entonçes hizo en este escudo.
L. Como eres moço, siendo tan madura
Tu edad? B. Porque quien moderarse sabe
En moçedad perpetuamente dura.
L. Que dize el son
d’el tamborin suave
Y los cuernos que trahes en la
cabeza?[4]
B. Dizen que soy de la locura llave.
L. Y ese color teñido en tal rubeza
Que muestra? B. Muestra el calor encendido
Que causo à la niñez y à la terneza.
Quando mi padre me sacò teñido
D’el vientre de mi madre, en agua
fria
Me lavò como estava empolvorido.
De alli fue cuerdo quien la fuerza mia
Mezclò con agua, y quien me beve puro
Abrasa sus entrañas à porfia.
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L. Pues que de mitigar eres tan duro,
Dime con que ley quieres ser mezclado,
Para que quien te beva estè seguro?
B. Un vaso de buen vino ser aguado
Con doblada agua (por lo menos) quiere
Aqueste es el mezclar mas moderado.
Mas aun aquel que con tal ley beviere
No llege hasta un quartillo, que si llega
Que sea borracho y loco se requiere,
L. Quan aspera y quan dura
ley se allega:
Nuestras gargantas son de gran caida,
Y dulçemente tu liquor las riega.
B. No ay bien que no se ague en esta vida.
1. For a description of Bacchus, see Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.4ff.
2. Praxiteles. This artist fashioned a famous group of statues in bronze depicting Bacchus/Dionysus with Drunkenness and a Satyr. See Pliny, Natural History 34.19.69.
3. Ariadne, daughter of King Minos of Knossos, who helped Theseus destroy the Minotaur, was taken by him to Naxos and there abandoned. Dionysus, the young, exotic and beautiful god of wine, rescued her and made her his bride. See Philostratus, Eikones 1.15.
4. The god was represented with ram’s or bull’s horns, symbolising power and virility. Under the influence of wine the weak imagine themselves strong and powerful: see Horace, Odes 3.21.18.
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