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.

Furie.

— Furie furiously mans life assailes With thousand cannons, sooner felt then seene, Where weakest, strongest, fraught with deadly teene, Blind, crooked, blisterd, melancholy, sad, Many-nam'd poyson, minister of death, Which from vs creepes, but to vs gallopeth. Foule, trouble rest, phantasticke, greedy-gut, Bloud sweating, hearts-theefe, wretched, filthy-slut The childe of surfait and aires-temper vicious, Perillous knowne, but vnknowne most pernicious. I. Syluister.

— Furie cruell cursed wight, That vnto Knighthood workes much shame and woe, And that same hag, his aged mother hight, Occasion, the roote of all wrath and dispight. With her, who so will raging Furie tame, Must first begin, and welther amenage, First her restraine from her reproachfull blame And euill meanes, with which she doth enrage Her franticke sonne, and kindles his courage, Then when she is withdrawne, or strong withstood, Is eath his Idle Furie to asswage, And calme this tempest of his passion wood, The bankes are ouerflowne, when so sped is the flood. Ed. Spencer.

Furie was red with rage, his eyes did glowe, While flakes of fier from forth his mouth did flowe His hands and armes y bath'd in bloud of those Whom fortune, sinne, or fate made countries foes. T. Lodge.

—This fell fury, for forerunner sends Manie and phrenzie, to subborne her frends, Whereof the one drying, th'other ouerwarming. The feeble brain (the edge of iudgement harming) Within the soule phantastickly they faine, A confus'd hoast of strange Chimeraes vaine. I. Syluister.