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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16 On Minos, Eacus, Rhadamanthus,
Iust Minos, husband to the beautifulPasiphas, who intirely lov'd a Bull:
Into a wooden Cow, which he did frame.
Her, Ded'lus puts, the Minotaur thence came.
No sooner was this known to Minos, but
He Dedalus and his Son Icarus shut
With that same Man-Bull Monster fed with men)
Within his self-made Labyrinth, and then
Haveing obtain'd the favour of a clue
Of threed, they made evasion, and flew
From Cretae's Isle, with Artificial plumes,
While unadvised Icarus presumes
Too high a flight, his waxen wings did melt,
And straightway fail'd, when they no sooner felt
The scorching force of Titan's fiery beames
He fell and christned the Icarian streames.
Theseus the man-destroying Monster slew,
And scap'd, help'd out by Ariadne's clue.
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Who in their way (by him directed) went
Thorough a flow'ry Meadow, which was thought
The field of truth, poor naked souls were brought
To these impartial Judges, who were strict
In dealing righteous judgment, and t'inflict
Deserved punishment upon offenders,
Furies, and evill Genii, their atenders,
With thund'ring whips of steell are ready still,
To execute these righteous Judges will,
On conscious souls; as bloudy murtherers,
Adulterers, hollow-hearted flaterers,
Claw-bac'd detractors, glozing Sycophants,
He which hath store of guilt no torment wants.
Æacus, Rhadamonthus, sit by one
Another lovingly, Minos alone.
When as Ægina was unpeopl'd then
At Eacus prayers, Iove turn'd the Ants to men;
His timely Orizons deliver'd Greece,
From the devouring plague, which did encrease,
And feast it self on flesh, carowsing bowls
Of the infected bloud of dying souls.
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