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.

Engines of warre.

—The Inginers haue the Trepan drest, And reared vp the Ramme for battery best. Here bends the Briccoll while the Cable crackes, There Crosbowes were vprent with yron Rackes. Here crooked Coruies fleing Bridges tall, Their scathfull Scorpions that ruines the wall, On euery side they raise with ioynture meete, The timber Towres for to commaund the streete. The painfull Pioners wrought against their will, With fleakes and Faggots, ditches vp to fill. Th. Hudson.

* —The happie Arabs those that builds In thatched Wagons wandring through the fields. The subtil Tirians they who first were Clarkes, That staid the wandring words in leaues and barkes. Idem.

* At Babell first confused toongs of euery language grew. W. Warner.

—Idolatry did growe * From Ninus first, he first a Monarchy did frame. Idem.

*Lord Dane the same was called thē, to thē a pleasing name, Now odiously Lordan say we, when idle mates we blame. Idem.

* The Turtle that is true and chaste in loue, Shewes by her mate something the spirit doth moue. The Arabian byrd that neuer is but one, Is only chaste because she is alone.

But had our mother Nature made them two, They would haue done as Doues and Sparrowes do. But therefore made a Martyr in desire, And doth her pennance lastly in the fire. M. Drayton.

*I cast not with fooles, suffer Saints, let mighty fooles be mad, Note, Seneca by newes done for precepts, pennance had. VV. Warner.

* The Romane widow dide when she beheld Her sonne, whom erst she counted slaine in feeld. G. Gascoigne.