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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11 On Minerva.
Jove 's brain-bred girle, the president of warrPrincess of peace drawn in a fiery Carr,
To her the Owl (To shew her clear discerning
Of obstruse secrets) sacred was of learning,
Of Arts of wisdome, she invent'ress was;
Her Target (Egis call'd) though smooth as glass,
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Who ever look'd was turn'd into a stone;
She on a Dragon treads, gripes in her hand
A Crow a Cock doth on her Helmet stand;
A long Cloake (Peplum cal'd) she us'd to wear,
And in the air wave her glit'ring Spear;
Terrour and feare her waiting maids stood by her,
Tutor'd by her, Prometheus stole fire,
From Titan's burning Chariot, by which thing,
He many Arts did to perfection bring:
Her heav'n-sent Image, the Paladium
Was by the vestal Virgins kept at Rome:
The Trojans loosing, this their City, lost,
Which in a Sea of stormy warrs was tos'd?
Olives to her were sacred, for she found
The use of Oyl, her the Athenians crown'd
With decent Chaplets, made of Olive leavs;
Her new-sound use of wooll, she spins and weaves,
A golden lamp to her was dedicated,
At her March leasts the Mistresses awaited
Upon their serving Maids, as Masters tended
Upon their Men, till the Saturnal's ended.
Jove's thunder she could use, and had the power
To raise a storme, and qualifie a shower.
Her heavenly seat is next to Jupiter,
She went up into Diomedes Carr,
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That she was undiscern'd, by Mars his eye:
Palas, Arachne turn'd into a Spider,
Ambition loves no equals live beside her.
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