Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Feare.

Like as a Hinde forth singled from the heard That hath escaped from a rauenous beast, Yet flies away, of her owne feete afrayd, And euery leafe that shaketh with the least Murmure of windes, her terror hath increast, So fled fayre Florimell from her vaine feare. Edm. Spencer.

— He shakes aloft his Romaine blade, Which like a Faulchon towring in the skies Coucheth the foule below with his wings shade, Whose crooked beake threats, if he mount, he dies: So vnder his insulting Fauchion lyes Harmelesse Lucretia, marking what he tells, With trembling feare, as foule heares Faulchons bells. W. Shakespeare.

As the poore frighted Deere that stands at gaze, Wildly determining which way to flie,

Or one incompast with a winding maze, That cannot tread the way out readily, So with her selfe she growes in mutinie To liue or die which of the twaine were better, When life is sham'd, and deaths reproches better. Idem.

Like as the Snayle, whose hornes being once hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly caue with paine, And there all smoothred vp in shade doth sit, Long after fearing to creepe forth againe: So at his bloody view her eyes are fled Into the deepe darke cabbins of her head. Idem.

As in the night each little fierie sparke May plainly be discerned with our eyne, But when the day doth come we then shall marke That all are dampt and doe no longer shine: So kindles feare in minde which doubt made darke, Vntill my sunne in my Horizon shine. S. I. Harr.

So great a terror in theyr minde was bred That straight as if with sprites they had beene skard, This way and that, confusedly they fled, And left the gates without defence or gard: As tumults often are at stage plaies bred, When false reports of sudden fits are heard: Or when the ouer-loaden seates doe cracke, One tumbling downe vpon anothers back. Idem.

Like as in time of Spring the water's warme, And crowding frogs like fishes there doe swarme,

But with the smallest stone that you can cast To stirre the streame, theyr crowding staies as fast: So while Iudea was in ioyfull dayes, The constancie of them was worthy praise, For that in euery purpose ye should heare The praise of God resounding euery where: So that like burning candles they did shine, Among theyr faithfull flock, like men diuine, But looke how soone they heard of Holoferne, Theyr courage quaild, and they began to derne. T. Hudson.