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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4 On Bacchus.
Jove 's thigh-borne, Ivy crowned Bacchus nurstBy Juno and the Nymphs, invented first
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He rides, fell Tigers and fierce Linces whirld
His Chariots rapid wheels, he did subdue
Innumerable Nations, and embrew
His hands in tawny Indians bloud, he taught
The Art to buy and sell, the first that sought
Triumphall honour, he his Temples bound
With Regal Diadems, and triumphs sound.
The browsing Goat, and slugish Ass are proud
For to be stiled his, see what a crowd
Of wanton Satyrs, and Sileni, comes,
Rending the ayer with their Kettle-drums;
Loud bellowing sounds, the Menedes his Priests
His Orgis, and his Bacchanalian feasts,
With such vociferations celebrate,
As would tire Fabius for to relate
Their mad confused fragors: seem to mix
The burning Axle with the frigid Styx.
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