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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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In Equum quendam ætate consumptum haud veloci pede promoventem Hexasticon

Englished thus

I am no Trojan Horse, nor fruitless stock,
To tell the truth I'me a grave-walking block.
Any, that will, may ride me for their pleasure,
Two thousand stripes may make me go by leasure:
I mind mine own, and Masters health, lo! Stars
My sides reflect: I brood the God of warrs.