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Sur la statue de Bacchus.[1]
Dialogisme.
D. Pere Bacchus qui t’ha veu d’oeil humain?
Qui ha pourtraict tes membres, de sa main?
R. (Praxiteles[2] qui ravissant me vit
Ariadné,[3]
tel que j’estois me feit.)
D. Pourquoy jeune es, ŕ barbe de village:
Quand tu pourrois de Nestor passer l’eage?[4]
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R. (Si tu apprens de mes dons abstenir:
Jeune, & puissant te pourras maintenir)
D. Tu has tabour en main, cornes en teste:[5]
Qui signes sont d’ung fol, ou d’une beste
R. (Par ce J’entendz, Qui mal use du vin
Cornes il porte: & bat le tabourin.)
D. Que signifie en toy couleur de feu?
Es tu bruslé en ce terrestre lieu?
R. (Traict hors du corps de ma mere, ars de fouldre
En l’eau plongé fut mon corps, plein de pouldre.
D’ond sage est cil, qui bien d’eau me baptize,
Et en son corps trop grand chaleur n’attise.)
D. Dy moy comment tu veulx estre attrempé
Et estre prins: sans que l’on soit trompé?
R. (Qui vouldra boire adjouste le quart d’eau:
Car ainsi boire est meilleur, & plus beau.
Soit d’ung Sextier content. Car qui passe oultre
Joyeux devient: & puys yvre se voultre.)
D. Cela est dur. La gorge avalle ŕ bas
Tu coules doulx. Biens aysez ne sont pas.
Exces de vin avance la
vieillesse, abestit le sens,
brusle les entrailles. Parquoy le fault temperer
tant par petite mesure, que par eau.
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. Nestor, king of Pylos, who had outlived three generations of men and was a proverbial example of age.
5. 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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