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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7 On Uulcan.
The sooty god of Iove and Iuno sprung,For his deformity from heaven flung,
Fell down into the Island Lemnos, with
The fall grew lame; made of the gods the Smith:
There sets up trade. On sulphry Ætnae's top,
And Lipara sometimes he sets up shop;
Where, with the one-eyd monstrous Cyclopes,
Broontes, Pyrachmon and huge Steropes,
Iove's thunder armour for the gods he made
Against those Gyants which would heaven invade:
To him the Lion, tetri lest of beasts
Was consecrated; in his honor feasts,
And sacrifices, celebrated were
Called Protervia, what meat they spare
They burne: Gentiles with blazing torches run
And when the wick is spent their race is done.
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At Thetis did Pelides armour yeild,
The potent Queen of riches and the air
He chaineth fast unto a golden chaire;
His wife and Msrs he in adultry found,
And them in Adamantine fetters bound.
| KOSMOBREVIA[Greek], or the infancy of the world | |