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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
Billingsley, Nicholas (1633-1709)

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The Worlds Creation, sung by Mr. Nicholas Billingsly, at fifteen years of Age.
  
To my friend the Author of this Book cui Titulus est Κοσμοβρεφια
  
Εκ Διος αρχομεα προς γαρ Διος εσμεν απαντες Πταχοι ------
  
To my Son (in Law) upon his Poem.
  
To my deare Brother the Author of this Book called Κοσμοβρεφια.
  
To my good friend Mr. Nicholas Billingsly in Honor of this work, penned by him about the fifteenth yeare of his age.
  
To my friend the Author, on his Poem intituled Κοσμοβρεφια.
  
To his very loving friend, Mr. Nicholas Billingsly, on his acurate Poem.
  
In Amici sui meritisimi: Nicholas Billingsly amænam Κοσμοβθεφια Synopsin Carmen Encomiasticon, Januar. 16. 1657.
  
Deo Ter Opt. Max.
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The Worlds Infancy.
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To the reverend, his much Honored Freind, Mr FRANCIS TAILOUR
  
The Praise of Nothing.
  
Divine Ejaculations.
  
The Birth of Christ.
  
A Hymne in Commemoration of the Gun-powder Treason.
  
GENETHLIACON,
  
The four Ages of the World.
  
Monumentum Exequiale
  
His Epitaph
  
In Equum quendam ætate consumptum haud veloci pede promoventem Hexasticon
  
[In Equum quendam ætate consumptum haud veloci pede promoventem Hexasticon]
  
An Acrostick Elegy upon the death of the late Reverend, and Famons Divine
  
On Ambition.
  
Annagramma FRANCIS ROVSE, Rise Car Of Svn.
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A CENTURIE OF HISTORICAL APPLICATIONS, With a Taste of Poetical Fictions: Being the fruits of some spare Hours.
  
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Historicall Applications
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Poetical Fictions.
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1. On Jupiter.
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2 On Apollo.
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4 On Bacchus.
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5 On Mercury.
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6 On Mars.
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7 On Uulcan.
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8 On Cibele.
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9 On Juno.
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10. On Uenus.
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11 On Minerva.
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12 On Diana.
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13 On Ceres and Proserpine,
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14 On Pluto.
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15 On Charon.
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16 On Minos, Eacus, Rhadamanthus,
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17 Eumenides.
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18 On the Harpies, Stryges, and Lamiæ.
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19 On Chimera.
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20 On the Fates.

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10. On Uenus.

Loves Goddess, thrice more radient then the morne
Of Cetus testicles, and Sea froth born,
With Rosy Chaplets her fair Temple's boun'd,
And sometimes with the peaceful Mirtle crown'd;
Light Torches bears, and needle-pointed Arrows,
Prodromes of love, a yoke of lecherous Sparrows
Sometimes do draw her Charriots, now she loves
To couple silver Swans, then spotless Doves;
Facundious Merc'ry, and the bounteous Graces,
Perswasive Pytho, in their several places,
Write on her honour; who was said to saile
To flow'ry Paphos, in a shell, a vaile
Of sorrow-boading Cyperus she wore,
When she Bore-kil'd Adonis did deplore.
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Sometimes a wanton Goate she rides upon,
And doth house-carrying tongueless snails tread on,
Mars into Seas of wantonness did steere her,
And reeling Bacchus was her Armour-bearer.
Paris assign'd unto the Queen of love,
The golden Apple which fell from above:
Iuno prevails not though she proffers treasure,
Pallas her gifts are slighted, it is pleasure
Load-stone to vice, attracts the wanton eye
Of injuditious Paris, wit may lie
And starve, for him rich Iuno is neglected;
And Venus, who but Venus, is respected?
Hellen is rap'd, he Hellen doth enjoy,
A ten years warr ends in the fall of Troy:
O dire effects of love! by Vulcan's jaws
Troy was devour'd, but Hellen was the cause.
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