Bacchus, chi called also Liber, Dionysius, Osiris, Priapus, Lenœus, Bromius, and Brotinus, The sonne of Iupiter, by Semele. The poets feigne, that after Iupiter had gotten Semele with childe, shee desired him to company with hir, like as he did with Iuno, in his diuine maiestis: where. fore he bringing with him his thunder and lightning, came to hir, but shee not able to susteine his presence, fell in trauayle, was deliuered long before hir time, and vyed. Iupiter looke and deliuered the childe to Mercurius, who by his commauttdement caryed it vuto Nyla, where hee was nourished vp by the Nymphes. Lyke foolishly other imagined, that Iupiter made an hole in his thygh to put in the childe, where it remayned vntill the full time of his byrth. This man among the Greekes did set vines & make wine. Also hee sirst yoked Oren in the plough, and gatheryng vnto him a great number of people, went a great part of the worlde, destroying monsters and tyrannes, and conquered the countrey of India: but his people delyghting in wine, and drinking supersluou by thereof, fell to fighting among themselues. Wherefore he prouided, that when they dranke, they should haue in their handes nothing but canes or other light kes.