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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14 On Pluto.
Saturne 's three sons shar'd his estate, heav'n fellTo Iove, to Neptune Sea; to Pluto Hell.
And all earth's golden entrails appertains,
His triple-headed Ceberus bound in chains
Of Adamant, holding a bunch of keys,
Before the pitchy Pallace kennel'd lies;
Horrible for his snakey hares, keeps cent'ry
To guard hell's Monarch; Sybil in this entry
(Which with a vig'lant eye he us'd to keep)
Did by her wisdome, lul him fast asleep;
Thence Herc'les drag'd him, light doth make him spue,
And of his foame the poys'nous Wolf-bane grew;
The raiging Futies, the life-measuring Fates,
Rapacious Harpies, waite within the gates
Of grisly Dis, with Fun'rall Cypres crown'd,
Who, galloping on his black Steeds, is found
By fraud'lent Cheaters, cursed Perjurers,
Oppressors, Lyars, and Extortioners:
But very slowly halteth from his den,
To honest, godly, conscionable men.
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Departing, flieteth with an Eagles wing.
Who e're put on Pluto his Helmet, he,
Became invisible, and from danger free:
With this same Helmet coverd, Wisdomes Queen
Fought against Troy, and was, by Mars unseen.
How Pluto ravished his Proserpine,
I lately told and shall not tel't agin.
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