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.

V.

Vagaboud. VVAndering, stragling, houselesse, restlesse, friendlesse.

Vaile. Masking, hanging, dangling, shadowie, virgin, maiden, spreading, cloudy, hiding, concealing, saintly.

Vale. Valley. v. Meadowes. Plains. Dusky, gloomy, narrow, humble, sportive, groveling, crowching, de∣lightsome, fruitful, green-plusht, low-coucht, dejected, solitary, under∣lying, shaded, over-looked, bushy, flower-enamell'd, motley, smiling, fragrant, hearby, grassie, flower-embroidered, tufred, dazied, level••'d, gamesome, green-cloath'd, green-mantled, soft-coated, flower-spang∣led, resounding, ecchoing hollow, stooping, crooked, darksome, me∣lancholy, winding, green-breasted, stream-embroydered.

Valour. Un-affrighted, undaunted, couragious, unshrinking, stout, unsh••k••n daring, adventurous, undertaking, attemptive, audacious, untamed, unquelled, masculine, unmooved, presumptuous, free, active, majestick, undejected, manly, haughty, puissant, generous, warlick, triumphant, victorious, all-subduing, heroick.

Vanity. Melting, empty, fleshing flaring, smoaky, frothy, pompous, ridicu∣lous, superfluous, lying, fruitlesse, speckled, swelling.

Vapour. Exhaled, smoaky, moist, cloudy, frothy, smothering, rainy, dusky sable, gloomy, foggy, misty, malignant, fat, oily, aspiring, earth-ingen∣dered, rising, mounting, tow••ing, infectious, unhealthy, ascending.

Variance. Jarring. disagreeing, dissentious, wrangling, brabling, jangling, un∣friendly, seditious, tumultuous, angry, harsh, hell-nourisht, blood-thir∣sty.

Variety. Novel, changing, different, plenteous, copious, prodigious, incre∣dible.

Varnish. Painted, shining, glittering, pompous, gaudy.

Vassal. v. Slave. Groaning, tugging, toyling, weary, wronged, abused, drudging, ig∣nominious, laborious, burthened.

Vault. Solitary, moldy, hollow, dankish, rocky, gloomy, darksome, forsaken unfrequented, musty, uncouth, sullen, arched, dark, obscure, mossie, hanging, blind, nasty, denny, doleful, lonely, concealed, secret.

Ʋdder. Sagging, milky, nursing, soft, flowing, tender, fluent, hanging flag∣ing, lolling, veiny, strouting, luxurious.

Vein. Fluent, azure, violet, purple, swelling, flowing, warme, winding, branched, bloody, dancing, enterlacing, trembling, boyling, seething, meandring.

Velvet. Glittering, pompous, rich, shaggy, smooth.

Vengeance, Sharp, hot, swift-wing'd, flaming, wreakful, black, fiery, secret, de∣serred, gnawing, pursuing, furious, raging, chafing, boyling, bloody, in∣satiate, unappeased, sad, flame-eyed, snake-haired, cruel, stern-visaged, grim, frowning, rageful. wrathful, threatning, hellish, stinging, ••ash impetuous, stormy, hot-mouth'd, sullen, blustering, impatient, passi∣on••te, sparkling, foaming, frothy, hideous, slow-pac't.

Venison. Delicious, tastful, tast-pleasing, well-seasoned, well-relish••, larded, costly.

Venome. Baneful, raging, subtile, working, piercing, spreading, swelling, eat∣ing, benumming, creeping, burning, drowsie, sleepy, stupefying.

Venus. Froth-born, smiling, faire-hair'd, lovely, frolick, weeping, incestu∣ous, wanton, lustful, burning, raging, youthful, lascivious, unchast, joy∣ous, joyful, proud, toyish, sportive, gamesome, deceitful, fruitfull,

teeming, attractive, beauteous, enamouring, bewitching, inchanting, inticing, voluptuous, delicious, black-brow'd, luxurious, adulterous, ingenious, perfumed, pleasant, pernicious, harmeful, bashful, blushing subtile, crafty, curious, quaint, Idalian, Cytherean, Paphian, sea-born, salacious, powerful, commanding, controlling, imperious, golden-haird, smooth.

Verdict. Just, unjust, malitious, injurious, honest, dishonest, severe, grim.

Verdure. Flowry, smiling, youthful, gay, pleasant, gaudy, joyful, joyous, fresh springing, blooming, leavy.

Varjuyce. Sharp, tart, poynant, stomach quickening, soure.

Vermine. Nasty, filthy, loathsome, noysome, harmful, gnawing, misch••evous, creeping, crawling.

Verse. Smooth-swelling, tributary, exalted, lofty, harmonious, immortal, deathlesse, powerful, everlasting, well-laboured, well-trickt, wel-drest well-composed, eternal, embalming, numerous, fluent, sweet-flowing, sinewie, learned, pleasant, amorous, wanton, delicious, nectareous, facetious, immortalizing, prophetick, muse-inspired, ear-enamouring, fancy-tickling, sprightly, sacred, measured, sententious, buskin'd, char∣ming, inchanting, intrancing nectar-dropping.

Vertue, Active, sacred, maiden, chast, white, cold, faire, bright, untainted, un-appeached, taintlesse, clear, thredbare, unregarded, disrespected, conspicuous, spotlesse, pretious, diviner, heroick, generous, glorious, deathlesse, immortal.

Vesture. v. Garments. Sumptuous, magnificent, costly, pompous, gorgeous, neat, trim, spruce, handsome, delicate, rich, gay, gaudy, fashionable, becom∣ing.

Vexation. Anxious, pressing, wringing, pinching, dolorous, painful, combrous, pestering.

Ʋglinesse. Loathsome, deformed, foul, nasty, prodigious.

Viands. Delicate, delicious, delightful, tastful, tast-pleasing, nectarean, am∣brosial, eye-glutting, feast-ful, costly, expensive, palat-pleasing, desired

Vice. Infamous, execrable, light-flying, enormous, unruly, odious, defor∣med, ugly, detested, leprous, filthy, spotted, pernitious, soul-tainting, soul-killing, impious, soul-stabbing, soul-wounding, defaming, loath∣ing,

••nsidious, rebellious, incorrigible, depraving, slipperie, alluring.

Victor. Victory. Laureate, crowned, white, silver-winged, triumphant, delightfull, va∣liant, couragious, martiall, warlick, renowned, famous, imperious, in∣sulting, glorious, bright, subduing, conquering, happy, immortal, pui∣sant, insulting.

Vigour. Manly, powerfull, nervous, sinewie, chearfull, active, lively, sprightly.

Villain. Michievous, rude, roguish, fordid, erath-born, notorious, crackrope, rope-ripe, shamelesse, unblushing, saucy, bold, impudent, brazen fac'd.

Vine. Spreading, winding, clasping, amorous, clustered, limber, sprightly, life-chearing, grape-charged, bleeding, humble, generous, lusty, swel∣ling, uxorious, fruitfull, youthfull, wanton, embracing, clinging, twining, encreasing, creeping, wrigling, writhing, knotty, brisled, leavy, ramping, bending, spriggie, branching, shadie, underpropped, enterlacing, tender, gadding, full-clustered.

Vineger. Sharp, tart, sour, cold, vigorous, subtil, piercing, cooling, refrigera∣ting, poynant.

Vintage. Fruitfull, teeming, wealthy, plenteous, prosperous,

Violence. Harsh, rugged, rigid, enforcing, surious, raging, untamed, unresisted, impetuous, cruel, tumultuous, tempestuous, angry, disdainfull, proud, dreadfull, insolent, hurrying, oppressing, unpitying, unrelenting, au∣dacious, imperious, disordered, tyrannous, swelling, transporting, head-strong, frantick, wild, savage, ungovern'd, impatient, passionate, blustering, heady, surly, sullen.

Violet. Nodding pale, purple, pale, azure, creeping, soft, st••eaked, beauteous, sweet-smelling, glowing.

Viper. Poysonous, venemous, drunken, wine-loving, abortive, pernicious, birth-forcing.

Virago. Stout, hardy, couragious, manly, masculine, heroick, valiant, valo∣rous, bold, audacious, adventurous, fearlesse, undaunted.

Virgin. Chaste, modest, blushing, bashfull, sober, untainted, pure, un∣spotted▪

Virginity. Cold, barren, fruitlesse, chast, pure, taintlesse, modest, sober, bashf•••• spotlesse, straight-lac'd, untoucht, maiden, white, pale.

Visage. Deformed, beauteous, smiling, mild, joyful, sweet, pleasing, ang•••• frowning, furious, rageful, stormy, imperious, graceful, lovely, disdai••∣ful, moded, setled, sterne, grim, mournful, chearful, affected, murther∣ous, supercilious, haughty.

Vision. Prophetick, sacred, enthusiastick, inspired, heaven-sent.

Vizard. Masking, disguising, concealing, dissembling, deceiving, veiling.

Ʋlcer. Putrid, diseaseful, nasty, loathsome, infectious, swelling, inflamed, uncured, corrupting, sordid, noysome, corroding, fretting, spreading, painful, putrifying.

Ʋlisses. Prudent, famous, subtile, crafty, wary, perju••'d, wandering, treache∣rous, warlick, lingering.

Ʋnadvisednesse, Rash, peremptory, inconsiderate, heedlesse, blustering.

Ʋncleanesse. Nasty, foul, loathsome, fulsome, sordid, sluttish.

Ʋnconstancy. v. Inconstancy. Ʋnderling. Oppressed, groaning, inferiour, obedient, humble, dejected, yeilding, slavish, servile.

Ʋnderstanding. Clear, quick, sharp, ingenious, apprehensive, deviseful, artful, inven∣tive, ready, subtile, active, nimble, ranging, roving, pregnant, teeming, busie, rich, wealthy, enriched, contriving.

Ʋngratefulnesse. v. Ingratitude. Fowle, base, odious, shamelesse, detestable impious, proud, insolent, arrogant.

Ʋnhandsomenesse. Deformed, ugly, loathsome, nasty.

Ʋnhappinesse. Disastrous, pitied, killing, perplext, impatient.

Ʋnicorne. Long-horn'd, warlick, virgin-loving, lyon-hating, Indian, savage, furious, pretious, rich-horned, yelling.

Ʋniformity. Gracefull, proportioned, agreeing, becomming, decent, beeauteous, e∣quall, even-squared, pleasant, handsome.

Ʋnity, Ʋnion. Friendly, peaceful, loving, amorous, embracing, conjoyning, sociable, according, agreeing, calm, mutuall, unjarring.

Ʋuniverse. Large, wide, wide-skirted, dispersed, extended, populous.

Ʋniversity. Lettered, learned, studious, famous, populous, bookish, instructive, honoured, peopled, thronged.

Voice. Sweet, harmonious, delicious, confused, suppliant, interrupted, in∣trancing, inchanting, well tuned, ear-ravishing, ear-enamouring, soul-raping, sprightly, mournfull, piteous, complaining, joyfull, mirthfull, puling, whining.

Volume. I earned, studious, subtil, sacred, grave, industrious, instructive, e∣laborate.

Vow. Religious, chaste, binding, fervent, pious, solemn, rash, inconside∣tate, unadvised, devotious, obliging, irrevocable.

Votray, v. Hermit. Voyage. Dangerous, adventurous, successefull, successelesse, disasterous, happy, unhappy, tedious, prosperous,

Ʋprore. Tumultuous, confused, seditious, mutinous, rebellious, lawlesse, un∣ruly, disordered, noyfull, furious, distempered.

Ʋrn. Quiet, forgetfull, sacred, peacefull, forsaken, fatall, mournfull, sable-vaulty, shady, darksome, cold, silent, shrowding, Ashy.

Ʋse. Frequent, commodious, profitable, gainfull.

Ʋsury Ʋsurer. Oppressing, griping, exacting, avaritious, greedy, covetous, scra∣ping, odious, hatefull, cruel, crushing, squeezing, hoarding, pinch∣ing, stanchlesse, insatiate, heart enthralling, monied, pale, carefull, fearfull, rigorous, unpitying inexorable-

Vulcan. Laborious, smudgy,, black, industrious, deformed, smoakie,

coali••, grimie, polt-foot, fierie, dustie, slow-footed, tardie-pac'd, lame, halting, rusty, musty, horned, cornuted.

Vulgar. v. Multitude. Low, bas••, misjudging, misdeeming, rude, illiterate, unconceiving, unlearned, sottish, giddy-headed, brainlesse, hair-brain'd, moodie, humorous, frantick, shallow-headed, tumultuous, inconstant, sedi∣tious.

Vulture. Greedy, ravenous, presaging, devouring, slow-wing'd, gluttonous, ill-boding, predictious, ominous, raping, carkasse-haunting.