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.

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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.
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Billingsley, Nicholas, 1633-1709.
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London :: Printed for Robert Crofts, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Chancery Lane, under Sergeants Inn,
1658.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76717.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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Humilitas Triumphans, Seu de Regina Suecorum, coronam sibi abrogante.

VIrtus munditiis culta suis nitit Excellens, Pario est marmore purior: Haec est ad superos strata rosis via: Felix qui pouit dulcia temnere Contentus minimis lucra divitiis. Thebanum Historiae laudibus evehunt Cratem, qui liquidum proijcit in mare Numorum cumulum non minimum se qui Anfractus Sophiae, cstraque Palladis. Quis non Phocionem tollat honoribus Claris ximium, munera Persica Peleo à juvene allataque spreverat? Agros Democritus deseruit suos Dives, fecit eos publica pascua: Expers muneribus Scipio publicis Prvatim usque diem vixit ad ultimum. Horum perspicua est n pietas virum! At multo his superat faemina nobilis, Regina indomita, et Gloria, Laus, Honor Suecorum; capii deposuit suo Iunctos Laureoles▪ & Diademata

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Dat consanguineo: non juvat aureis Ostantaré suum stemma palatiis, Gaudet nec animos stringere in hosticas Junctis in cuneos Quadrupedantibus Turmas et valido milite consequi Victorum innumeris nomina mortibus: Nec calcat variis classibus aequora. Non vestis Tyrio murce tingitur Auri nec poculis, vinaque Lesbia Scintillant: cumulos despicit aureos. Contenta haec proprijs usibus aggerat Quantum sufficiat copiarumque opum.
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