The Latin stanzas subjoined would, however, not have suited Enobarbus and the roistering triumvirs of the world,— “_Suave Dei munus vinum est: hominumque saluti Conducit: præsit dummodò sobrietas. Immodico sed si tibi proluat ora Lyæo, Pro dulci potas tetra aconita mero._” [Sidenote: _i.e._] “Wine is God’s pleasant gift, and for men’s health Conduces, when sobriety presides; But if excessive drained Lyæan wealth, For liquor sweet black aconite abides.” The phrase, “rempli de vin dont son visage est teint,” in “LE MICROCOSME,” Lyons, 1562, suggests the placing the stanzas in which it occurs, in illustration of Shakespeare’s song; they are,— “Le Dieu Bacchus d’ordinaire on depeint Ayant en main vn chapelet de lierre, Tenant aussi vne couppe ou vn verre Rempli de vin dont son visage est teint. Des deux costes son chef on void aislé, Et pres de luy d’vne pasture belle Le genereux Pegasus à double aisle Se veut guinder vers le ciel estoilé.” In ſtatuam Bacchi. _DIALOGISMVS._ XXV. [Illustration: _Alciat, 1581._] It may give completion to this sketch if we subjoin the figured Bacchus of Alciat (edition Antwerp, 1581, p. 113), and present the introductory lines,— “BACCHE _pater quis te mortali lumine nouit, Et docta effinxit quis tua membra manu? Praxiteles, qui me rapientem Gnossida vidit, Atque illo pinxit tempore, qualis eram._” Of Alciat’s 36 lines, Whitney, p. 187, gives the brief yet paraphrastic translation,— “The timelie birthe that SEMELE did beare, See heere, in time howe monstêrous he grewe: With drinkinge muche, and dailie bellie cheare, His eies weare dimme, and fierie was his hue: His cuppe, still full: his head, with grapes was croun’de; Thus time he spent with pipe, and tabret sounde.[128] Which carpes all those, that loue to much the canne, And dothe describe theire personage, and theire guise: For like a beaste, this doth transforme a man, And makes him speake that moste in secret lies; Then, shunne the sorte that bragge of drinking muche, Seeke other frendes, and ioyne not handes with suche.” On the same subject we may refer to _Love’s Labour’s Lost_ (act iv. sc. 3, l. 308, vol. ii. p. 151), to the long discourse or argument by Biron, in which he asks,— “For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?” The offensiveness of excess in wine is then well set forth (l. 333),—