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.

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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.
Author
Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.
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Imprinted at London :: For N. L[ing,] C. B[urby] and T. H[ayes],
1600.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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Impossibilities.

He that the number of the leaues could cast, That in Nouember falles by winters blast: He that could tell the drops of raine and sleete, That Hyad, Orion, or Pleyiades weete. Sheds on the ground that man might onely tell, What teares from Iudiths eies incestant fell. Th. Hudson.

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— Like Coruiue who forgate His Proper name; or like George Trapezunce, Learned in youth, and in his age a dunce. I. Syl.
The firmament shall retrograde his course, Swift Euphrates go hide him in his sourse: Firme mountains skip like lambes beneath the deepe, Eagles shall diue, whales in the aire shall keepe. Ere I presume with fingers end to touch, Much lesse with lippes the fruite forbid too much. I. Syluester.
Flie from thy channell, Thames forsake thy streames, Leaue the Adamant Iron, Phoebus lay thy beames. Cease heauenly spheres, at last your watrie warke Betray your charge, returne to Chaos darke. At least some ruthlesse Tigre hang her whelpe, My Catisbye so with some excuse to helpe, M. M.
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