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The Infancy of the World

Published: 1658
Length: 31,581 words
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Divisions: 70

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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.

London Printed for Robert Crofts, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Chancery Lane, under Sergeants Inn 1658.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

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Title page
Quotations
QuotationBasilius Seluciensis:
QuotationBasilius Magnus:
QuotationAugustinus.
DedicationTo the Right Honorable, FRANCIS ROUS, Esq; Provost of Eaton Coll. and one of the Council to his Highness…
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EncomiumTo my friend the Author of this Book cui Titulus est Κοσμοβρεφία
Encomium
EncomiumAmic… suo Authore amore nec non affinitate conjunctissimo.
EncomiumTo my Son (in Law) upon his Poem.
EncomiumTo my deare Brother the Author of this Book called ….
EncomiumTo my good friend Mr. Nicholas Billingsly in Honor of this work, penned by him about the fifteenth yeare of…
EncomiumTo my friend the Author, on his Poem intituled …,
EncomiumTo his very loving friend, M…. Nicholas Billingsly, on his acurate Poem.
EncomiumIn amici sui opus exquisitum Κοσμοβρεφίαν.
EncomiumIn Amici sui meri…isim…: Nicholas Billingsly amaenam Κοσμοβρεφίας Synopsin Carmen Encomiasticon, Januar.…
EncomiumOn the same:
EncomiumIn Amici sui meritò Charissimi Mundi Cunabula siue Κοσμοβρεφίαν.
PoemDeo Ter Opt. Max.
PoemThe Worlds Infancy.
Section 1The Argument.
Section 2The Argument.
Section 3The Argument.
Section 4The Argument.
Section 5The Argument.
Section 5The Argument.
Section 7The Argument.
Section 8The Argument.
AppendixAn Appendix
2 sections
DedicationTo the reverend, his much Honored Freind, Mr FRANCIS TAILOUR Anagr. AL VAIN FOR C(H)RIST.
PoemThe Praise of Nothing:
EjaculationsDivine Ejaculations.
PoemThe Birth of CHRIST.
AcrosticIn Natalim Christi.
HymnA Hymne in Commemoration of the Gun-powder Treason.
SongGENETHLIACON, OR A Birth-song, in honor of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ his coming into the World.
PoemThe four Ages of the World.
Part 11 The Golden Age.
Part 22 The Silver Age.
Part 33 The Brazen Age.
Part 44 The Iron Age.
PoemMonumentum Exequiale OR Lasting sorrow for the death of the Reverend, Pious, and Eminently-learned, Mr Tho…
EpitaphHis Epitaph:
PoemTerra Pilae fimilis.
PoemVita Principis censura.
PoemTertullus Apolos.
PoemIn Equum quendam atate consumptum hand veloci pede promoventem Hexasticon
TranslationEnglished thus:
TranslationOr thus
PoemInanis jactatio per hypotypofin.
PoemQuerimonia de Solario.
PoemHumilitas Triumphans, Seu de Regina Suecorum, coronam sibi abrogante.
PoemIn Hortos.
PoemEucharasticon, in pluviam post solennes preces feliciter donatam.
PoemDe Arietis ante Electionem Etonensem (pro more) venatione.
PoemQuaerimonia Etonensium de spe fere frustraneâ.
ElegyAn Acrostick Elegy upon the death of the late Reverend, and Famons Divine,
AcrosticIn obitum Dom. THO: WEAVER: M. A. Etonensis Coll. Socij: Acrostico-Epicedium.
PoemOn Ambition.
TextEVCharIstICon, In PsaLMos IessaeI natI sVaVIsonos, FranCIsCo RoVs Generoso (Etonae PraesVLe) Paraphraste…
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DedicationTo his Honored Ʋncle, Mr Iohn Wooton one of the Commissioners for the County of Hereford.
To the reader
PoemHistoricall Applications,
PoemPoetical Fictions.

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