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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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19 On Chimera.

Three shap'd Chimera, that much hurt had done,
At last was killed by Belerophon,

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A Lions head he had; his gulf-like throate
Breaths fire, the belly of a wanton goate
Nor wanting was to him, and least he saile
Of spight, he had the poys'nous Dragons taile.