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 nititExcellens, Pario est marmore purior:Haec est ad superos strata rosis via:Felix qui po••uit dulcia temnereContentus minimis lucra divitiis.Thebanum Historiae laudibus evehuntCratem, qui liquidum proijcit in mareNumorum cumulum non minimum se quiAnfractus Sophiae, c••straque Palladis.Quis non Phocionem tollat honoribusClaris ••ximium, munera PersicaPeleo à juvene allataque spreverat?Agros Democritus deseruit suosDives, fecit eos publica pascua:Expers muneribus Scipio publicisPr••vatim usque diem vixit ad ultimum.Horum perspicua est ••n pietas virum!At multo his superat faemina nobilis,Regina indomita, et Gloria, Laus, HonorSuecorum; capi••i deposuit suoIunctos Laureoles▪ & Diademata
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Dat consanguineo: non juvat aureisOstantaré suum stemma palatiis,Gaudet nec animos stringere in hosticasJunctis in cuneos QuadrupedantibusTurmas et valido milite consequiVictorum innumeris nomina mortibus:Nec calcat variis classibus aequora.Non vestis Tyrio mur••ce tingiturAuri nec poculis, vinaque LesbiaScintillant: cumulos despicit aureos.Contenta haec proprijs usibus aggeratQuantum sufficiat copiarumque opum.
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