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 his very loving friend, Mr. Nicholas Billingsly, on his acurate Poem.
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To his very loving friend, Mr. Nicholas Billingsly, on his acurate Poem.
Atomes , say some, by chance together thrownThe world was made of: sure had they but known
Of this its nobler birth, not one would dare
To say that chance could make it half so fair.
Here Epicurus who is Picture drew,
In lines like his opinion seldome true,
In this composed piece, might at one sight
Have seen to set both verse and judgment right
Thus Sir, takeing the blot from Poetrie,
In this you make both it and truth agree.
D. R. Col. Mert
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