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BACCHVS,

OR

The Pyrats.

f Dionysus (Noble Semeles Son)
I now intend to render Mention:
As on a prominēt shore, his person shone,
Like to a Youth, whose flowre was newly blone.
Bright azure Tresses, plaid about his head;
And on his bright brode shoulders, was dispred
A purple Mantle. Strait he was descride
By certaine Manly Pyrats, that applide
Their vtmost speede to prise him; being abord
A well-built Barck; about whose brode sides ror'd
The wine-black Tyrrhene Billows: Death as black

Brought