Kosmobrephia or the infancy of the world: with an appendix of Gods resting day, Eden 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. then of Eaton school; and now published at the request of his friends.

2 The Silver Age.

Saturn b'ing banish'd his supposed throne, (Seldom comes better when the old one's gone) Dayes Halcionian ceas'd, the Silver Age With beardless Jove, came mounting on th•• stage. Jove did contract the pleasures of the Spring, And the year into four Quarters bring. Gray Winter sbiv'ring comes, and sheets of Snow Upon this universal Bed doth strow. The waies are chain'd, Glaz'd are the silver floods; White Periwigs adorn the bald-pate woods. Extreamity of weather now compells Men to build houses, and procure them cells: Thick shrubs and barks of Trees they joyn together And make some briero's against wind weather. The earth displeas'd at this mutation, breeds The downie Thistle, and such usless weeds. No Wheat is reaped, nor no Barley mown, But what by the industrious hand is sown.

The yoaked Oxen groane, the lab'our•• brows Rain sweaty showers down: the boyst'rous ploughs Because until'd, earth would no longer bear For very madness do her bowels tear.