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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17 Eumenides.
The snake-hair'd furies, born of Night and Dis,Eumen'des nam'd by an Antiphrasis;
In heaven Diræ and in earth they be
Call'd Harpiæ, and in hell the Furiæ,
She Stygian Dogs of Pluto; Alecto
With bloudy-burning Pine, runs too and fro;
Envious Megæra riseth from her chair,
And with her poysnous breath infects the air;
The furnace of her mouth (beseig'd with fire)
Contagious vapors casts her whip of wire
Mad drunk with bloud, makes such a dreadful sound
As though the heauen, & earth, it would confound
Spightful Tesipeone with Scorpions stings
Offenders, and her horrour-boding wings
She stearnly shakes, and makes the guilty seal
Th'imprinted strokes of her revengful steel.
These sisters, dredful for their brazen feet;
Snake-hairs, loud-sounding scourges have their seat
With Apollo's sacred Temple porch,
Dismaly tining their infestuous Torch;
Worship'd they were, that they no hurt might doe,
Who into their Achaian Temple goe,
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Much like enormities, did grow distracted
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