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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9 On Juno.
The sceptred Queen of heaven, to thundring loveSister, and wife of marriage doth approve
Goddess of riches, ever counted mild
And helpful unto woman great with child;
Saturne, and Ops, her parents; she was bred
Up by the Flowrs, and by the Sea-Nymphs fed.
Faire Iris, Ledeas twins, and Nymphs twice seaven
Fidelious service, to the Queen of heaven,
Duly performe, and dayly waite upon her,
Respecting her according to her honour;
In a rich Charriot, stately to behold,
Of beaten silver and of burnish'd gold,
A yoke of yellow Lyons draw her round
Her vast dominions; spangled star pav'd ground.
The taile-proud Peacock, and the vigilant Goose,
And ravenous Raven's sacred to her use:
Her parties, to be married, off'rings bring,
And do the gall behind the Alters fling:
Her Temple open-roofed was, to enter
Therein, no whore by Numa's law might venture.
Her coadjutor, who is wont to tye men
To females, known is by the name of Hymen.
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Therewith she modest blushing Brides enfolds;
Iuno did shed her milke, rather then she
A nurse unto feirce Herculee would be:
Thence Lillius had their Alablaster look,
From thence the milkie way its whiteness took:
This hand holds a Pomgranate, there doth stand
A Cuckow on her other sceptered hand.
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