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KOSMOBREVIA[Greek], or the infancy of the world

With an Appendix of Gods resting day, Edon Garden; Mans Happiness before, Misery after, his Fall. Whereunto is added, The Praise of Nothing; Divine Ejaculations; The four Ages of the world; The Birth of Christ; Also a Century of Historical Applications; With a Taste of Poetical fictions. Written some years since by N. B.[i.e. Nicholas Billingsley] ... And now published at the request of his Friends

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To my friend the Author, on his Poem intituled Κοσμοβρεφια.
  
  
  
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To my friend the Author, on his Poem intituled Κοσμοβρεφια.

When I survey thy well-composed piece
I stand amaz'd at thy rare Artifice
Thy curious Pencil guided by a hand
More skilful then Apelles could command,
Hath, to the greatest Artists emulation,
A stately Landskip of the Worlds Creation,
Drawn to the life: my friend each polish'd line
Is guilded o're with eloquence divine:
VVhich feeds with loftier Ayers, juditious ears
Then those causd by the motion of the Spheres.
I'le only add, by way of approbation,
Thy serious work's an heavenly Recreation,
Francis Taylor.
Cant. Jan. 1. 1656.