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ODE 4.
[Bacchus father of all sport]
Bacchus father of all sport,Worker of loues comfort:
Venus best beloued brother
(Like beloued is none other)
Greater father of felicitie,
Fill full with thy diuinitie,
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Thence fuming vp into my braines
Exceede Apollo through thy might,
And make me by thy motion light:
That with alacritie I may
Write pleasing Odes, and still display
Parthenophe, with such high praises
Whose bewtie shepheard's all amases:
And by those meanes her loues obtaine,
Then hauing fill'd vp euery vaine,
I shall be set in perfect state
The rightes of loue to celebrate
Then each yeare fat from my sheepe coate
Thy sacrifice a tydie goate:
And Iô Euohê shall bee
Loude chaunted euery where to thee.
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