The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole.

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The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole.
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Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Johnson,
1657.
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English poetry.
Epithets.
English language -- Rhyme -- Dictionaries.
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"The English Parnassus, or, A helpe to English poesie containing a collection of all rhyming monosyllables, the choicest epithets, and phrases : with some general forms upon all occasions, subjects, and theams, alphabeticaly digested : together with a short institution to English poesie, by way of a preface / by Joshua Poole." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55357.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Formes of Dispraising.

The basenesse of whose mind is such, that it sinks a thou∣sand degrees lower than the basest body could carry the most base fortune.

An unnecessary letter in the alphabet of creatures. The cipher in Natures Arithmatick, and the accounts of all good men. To make him more culpable than he is, were but to cast inke on an Aethiops face. Oh for a name Were bad enough, but all expession's lame. A man of that stupendious composition, He seems made up of the worst of all extremities. Whose ill is grown to such a height, It makes the earth groan to support his weight. The quintessence and abstract of all evill, Clothed in flesh to play the closer Devill.

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Incarnate Devill. Devill in hose and doublet. Whose shame even hoarse with age black fame shal ring. And after times with horrour shall distract, And by recounting of so vile an act, Mortality so much astonishing, Make them account their wickednesse, scarce sin To that, which long before their time hath been. That know no God more mighty than their mischief. Of the most wicked disposition, that ever infected the aire with his breath. Sts fires on barnes, and hay-stacks in the night, And bids the owners quench them with their tears. That dg up dead men from their quiet graves, And set them upright at their dear friends doores, Even when their sorrowes almost were forgot. Not clean enough to spit on. A man that is the abstract of all faults, That all men follow. The impostume of all corruptions. Who all things on the earth amends, By beeing worse than they. A disposition would turne charity it self into hate. That pursue Deeds, After which no mischief can be new. Who is no lesse Than the perfection of all wickednesse. The Stigian Quintessence. The Devils Enchiridion. In one the monster of all wicked men. None speak his name, but spit after it, for fear of being poyson'd. The type of basenesse, To whom vice is so proper, that it seems to grudge any man the practise of it, but himself. To whom murthers are but resolute acts, and treasons, matters of great consequence. The Devills factor for all wickednesse. An honest man can neither see him, nor speak of him without a blush.
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