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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15 On Charon.
The squalid son of Erebus and NightOld, but not weak, most terrible for sight;
Vigorous, furious, coveteous, and sad,
With greasy, sordid, ragged garments clad:
In his old rotten, feeble, brittle wherry,
Mens souls to the Elizium he doth ferry,
Over the scalding Lakes of Phlegethon:
Mournful Cocytus, joyless Acheron,
Hateful Styx, (by which the Gods did sweare)
Oblivion; causing Lethe, for his fare,
Each passenger a half-penny must carry
In his shut mouth, or else for passage tarry:
None but the dead t'his boat admitted be,
Yet was Eneas, for his pietie,
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Theseus by strength, Orpheus by's musicke sound;
Alive, and with no faces these Champions come,
Into the pitchy Realms of Baratbrum.
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