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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"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 8, 2024.

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Daffadill. TAwny, guilt-bowly, purple, gaping, open, smiling, vernall.

Dagger. Short, stabbing, murdering, desperate, sharp-pointed, bloody, secret, poynant, silent, stealing.

Daisie. Tufted, studded, golden, vernall, smiling, sunny.

Dale. Flowry, humble, lowly, delightfull, fruitfull, pleasant, sweet-cloaths,

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motly, gaudy, smiling, tufted, enameld, chequer'd, gree-plusht, spotive, painted, grassie, shadie, ecchoing, resounding, re¦bounding, fragrant.

Dance. Gracefull, courtly, skilfull, enamouring, wanton, sportive, a¦tractive, active, flowing, swimming, nimble, tripping, measur' well-ordered, moving, lascivious, modest, well-timed, amorous pleasing, winning.

Danger. Sad, dreadfull, unavoyded, certain, doubtfull, unhappy, bitte, pensive, pressing.

Darkness. v. Night. Rusty, gloomy, sullen, sooty, sad, pensive, jetty, pitchy, neg••••, cloudie, duskie, Aegyptian, Cymerian, sable, Ebon, dull, siln, blind, collied, swarthy, grimme, smoaky, ugly, shpeless, deformed, stumbling, shady, obscuring, sleepy, drowsie, peacefull, confused deceitfull, dull, lither, lzy, hideous, still, quiet, unactive.

Darnell. Black, barren, hurtfull, choaking, over-topping, unlucky, domi¦neering, sleepy, drowsie, injurious, harmfull, bitter, eye-offending

Dart. v. Arrow. Thrilling, pointed, poynant, singing, trembling, flying, flutter¦ing, quivering, whirling, wounding, poysoned, killing, winged.

Daw. Pratling, twatling, noysefull, winter-presageing, thievish, pra¦ting, stealing.

Dawn. v. Morn. Early, blushing, purple, spicy, rosie, dewie, rosie-fingerd, weep¦ing, pearly, gray-cheekt.

Day. Winged, busie, active, lightsome, gladsome, chearfull, laborous, industrious, rght, clear, carefull, shining, beamy, enlightned, s••••¦ding, joyfull, posting, succeeding, sunny, rosie, purple, ambrosiaa, peering, increasing.

Death. v. Destinie. Pale, wan, sable, impartiall, imperious, all-commanding, chi∣ling, cold, tyrann zing, domineering, over-ruling, all-controulling, uncontrouled, inexorable, exacting, invading, encroaching, rest∣full, quiet, silent, peacefull, unresisted, unrelenting, remorseless, hideous, yawning, ingrossing, grasping, lean, dustie, meager, bare¦ribd, flint-hearted, cruell, grimme, stern awfull, frowning, devour∣ing, ravenous, rigorous, rigid, nasty, fulsome, unwelcome, unexpe∣cted,

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covetous, insatiate, abhorred, detested, loathed, loathesome, noysome, blood-thirsty, hasty, trembling, ugly, deformed, groa∣ning, timely, untimely, surprizing, arresting, envious, unbribed, implacable, unperswaded, disdainful, uncivil, proud, scornful, dis∣respective, regardlesse, carelesse, audacious, fearlesse, adventurous, saucie, unmannerly, presumptuous, ambitious, gluttonous, deaf, stifling, smothering, choking, injurious, dreadful, bitter, felonious, importunate, glorious, disgraceful, ignominious, shameful, ruthlesse, resistlesse, victorious, triumphant.

Death-bed. Cold, pale, quivering, bleake, leane, meager, trembling, groa∣ning, gasping, yawning, sad, pensive

Deceit. v. Craft, December. v. Cold. Fostie, cold, icie, snowie, lither, lazie, drowsie, dull, lumpish, sad, frlck, jolly, mirthful, feastful, drunken, hoary, nipping, pinch∣ing, gamesome, joyous.

Deep. v. Sea. Vasty, devouring, unfathomed, unsounded, boyling, swelling, working, floating, angry, aged, wealthy, shelfie, tumbling, stor∣my, ruffld, fretting, rugged, insatiate, gulphy, swallowing, curled, surgie, remorseless.

Delay. Lingring, tedious, comfortless, dull, weary, sad, pensive, slow, snail-pac't, tardy, laze, cold, freezing, dronish, needlesse, fruitlesse, vain.

Delicates. v. Cates. Delight. Free, soft, dear, melting, sportive, wanton, effeminate, sensual, voluptuous, fleshly, carnal, enamouing, dallying, dandling, exta∣syde, joyous, intrancing, lavish, raping, loose, fresh, choice, temp∣ting, pleasant, gay, chearing, luxurious, riotous, superfluous, royal, desired, tickling, gaudy, courtly, princely.

Den. v. Cave. Gloomie, vaultie, crooked, loathsome, nasty, noysome, fulsome, musty, fusty, dusty, moldy, rockie, doleful, melancholy, hollow, darksome, mossie, uncouth, sullen, pensive, lonely, theevish,

Deere. Browsing, feeding, goodly, fearful, tripping, light-foot.

Desart, Devious, wild, wide, vast, savage, uncouth, melancholy, sad,

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silent, unfrequented, sandy, dreaful, sullen, shadowie, gloomie, rockie, hory, rough, pathlesse, shrubbie, bushie, unpeopled, unfruitful, b••••∣ren, inhospitable, scorched, dangerous.

Desire. Unstified, uncontroled, uncurb'd, disordinate, irregular, invin∣cible, wiged, untamed, covetous, insatiate, ardent, passionate, am∣bitious, flaming, hot, sottish, sollicitous, unfathomed, deep, unmea∣sured, unlimited, unconfined, burning, blind, careful, amorous, un∣speakable, unexpressible, longing.

Despaire. Sad, pensive, sorrowful, heavie, dull, cold, pale, comfortlesse, lzie, hellish, damned, faithlesse, hopelesse, snakie, dark, grim, sterne, lean, meage, sullen, enginous, plotting, sighing, groaning, weep¦ing, mournful, chill, low.

Destiny. Changelesse, ruthlesse, remorselesse, unrelenting, unbribed, inex¦orabl, imperious, commanding, unchanged, unaltered, resistlesse victorious, triumphing, adamantine, unconquered, compelling, fixe eternal, everlasting, enforcing, fatal, uncontrolled, impartil, y¦rannizing, domineering, over-ruling, all-controlling, exactin unresisted, unprevented, surprizing, arresting, importuning, almig¦ty, inevitable, unavoyded, blind, secret, silent, unmooved, seve•••• inclining, deaf, inflexible.

Detraction. Envious, foul-mouth'd, calumnious, biting, crafty, black-mouth' malicious, injurious, subtle, slie, base, vile, forging, glozing, co¦ging, jalous, envious, babling, twatling.

Device. Queint, choyce, fabulous, pleasant, painted.

Devil. Subtle, tempestuous, pernicious, hideous, unclean, lying, decei¦ful, mischievous, tempting, vigilant, industrious, craftie, malitio•••• dceiving, vilainous, enchanting, devouring, infernal, seduci•••• fraudulent, calumniaing, cursed, damned, tormented, hurryin malignant, rebllious, wilie, snakie.

Devotion, Holy, sacred, religious, quick, fervent, pious, affectionate, suppl¦ant, humble, solemn, profound, reverent, gracious.

Dew. Trickling, pearly, honey-dropping, chrystal, rosie, ambrosial, ••••¦freshing, vegetating, early, balmie, melting, coole, morning, nig¦ly, dropping, showrie, glassie, fruitful, enlivening, flower-courtin

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kissing, vanishing, short-lived, weeping, fresh, ambrosial, nectare∣ous, sprinkling, scatered.

Diamond. Shining, sparkling, Indian, bright, lasting, pointed, glasse-cutting, obduring, hard, solid, unconquered, eternal.

Diadem. v. Crown. Dice. Cheating, cogging, gamesome, deceitful, uncertain.

Dido. Unhappy, bloody, pensive, despairing, weeping, Carthaginian, Si∣donian, Tyrian-Quer, sad, fair, beauteous, sorrowful.

Dirt. Miry, slimy, muddy, filthy, nasty, loathsome, fulsome, putrid, rot∣ten, sordid, stinking, dagling.

Discord. Hell-nourish't, sterne, jrring, harsh, snakie, unsociable, unfriendly, hateful, seditious, quarrelsome, uinous, pernicious, mortal, tumul∣tuous, furious, liigious, inhumane, pittylesse, merciless, bloodie, an∣gry, grumbling, war-breeding, dissentious, blood-thirsty.

Disdain. v. Scorne. Proud, contemptuous, malevolous, arrogant, sober, scorneful, unkind, chast, coy, high, wry-mouth'd, insolent, sowre-eyed, pettish, peevish, brave, churlish, haughty, swelling, portly, surly, burly, squint∣eyed, currish.

Discretion. Wise, sage, prudent, mature, advised, reposed, grave, modest, tem∣pered, sound, staid, sober.

Disease. v. Malidy. Dull, contagious, infectious, languishing, sterne, piig, pale grievous, torturing, vexing, incurable, pettish, peevish, angry, f∣al, painful, fretting, griping, twitching, girding, sad, pinching, ••••ipping, pulling, cutting, pressing, wringing, gauling, doleful, itter, gnawing, racking, smarting, lingring, noysome, loath∣some, filthy, fulsome, nasty, cruel, impatient, trembling, raging, plaintful, querulous, whining, puling, wasting, eating, drying, ucking, tedious.

Dissobedience. Rebellious, mutinous, unruly, proud, tumultuous, seditious, sau∣y, impudent, shamelesse, daring, bold, audacious, gracelesse, unseem∣y, unfitting, uncomely, unbecoming.

Disorder. Confused, tumultuous, irregular,

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Doctor. Knowing, learned, skilful, grave, experienc't, pius, reverend, hnoured, famous, ancient, aged, studious, industrious, painful, in gnious, witty, prudent, discreet.

Doe. Swift, light-foot, fearful, tender, flying, savage, tripping, brow∣sing, weak, frightful.

Dogge. Ravenous, bawling, hungry, greedy, faithful, headstrong, thee∣vish, fierce, furious, watchful, flat-nosed, muzzeled, gluttonons, swi•••• fleet, speedy, eager, chasing, fallow, pursuing, wel-trust, nimble, biting, snarling, grinning, yelping, yawling, ranging, deep-mouth' ful-mouth'd, well-sented, quick-nosed, spotted, speckled, surly, su∣len, stubborne, sturdy, shaggie, careful, grim, sterne, grumblin guarding, breinded, flea-bitten, lowsie, colla'd.

Dogge-starre. Hot, enraged, enflamed, scorching, unhealthy, diseaseful, unwho¦some, smarting, itching, netling, sparkling, broyling, drie, burnin fiery, flaming, pernitious, thirsty, mad, raging, raving.

Dormouse. Sleepie, drowsie, idle, lazie, lither, fat, plumpe.

Doubt, Distractful, vexing, torturing, tormenting, anxious, netling, ca••••¦ful, sollicitous, perplexing, quaking, jealous, ambiguous, fear•••••• suspitious, giddie, faint, cold, heartlesse, lazie, amazing, mazie, ••••¦sing, jarring, strugling, quandaring, hovering, sagging, mudd wavering, wavie.

Dolphin. Crooked, armed, greene, amorous, venereous, wanton, loving, ¦zure, flattering, scalie, speedie, wandering, ranging, straying, M¦sick-enamoured, bowed.

Dove. Simple, trembling, sprightly, panting, timorous, fearful, ai piercing, silly, melancholy, harmelesse, billing, amorous, venereo mourning, cliping, gentle, curteous, wanton, lascivious, b swift, fleet-winged, paphian, tender, Idalian, crooing, feeled, wh¦ling, weak, tender, grave, whispering, gal-less.

Downes. Motly, enamelled, flowry, tufted, dasied, painted, gaudie, s¦ling, verdant, enflowred, fragrant, hearbie, grassie, embroyder sportive, faire-cloathed, green-plush', fruitful, checkerd, wide-s¦ted, spaticu, pleasant, opn, goodly, delightful.

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Dragon. Quick-eyed, quick-sighted, watchful, waking, yawning, devou∣ring, venemous, poysonous, scaly, crested, writhed, voluminon, curled. winged, wary, azure, hissing, swelling, cruel, fell, greedy, the guardian of the golden fleece, speckled, freckled, sotted.

Dreame. Ominous, pleasing, wandering, black, auspicious, bewiching, emptie, vaine, slippery, flshie, fallacious, deceitful, deuding, flattering, fantastick, pale, busie, senceless, lying, flying, careful, dreadful, distracting, disastrous.

Dreggs. Muddy, courser, rejected, despised, fruitless, useless.

Drone. Lazie, lither, idle, buzzing, humming, yawning, barren, fruit∣less, stingless, injurious.

Drop. Liquid, pearly, amber, roping, hanging, distilling, trickling ril∣ling, frothie, spotting, staining, flowing, falling, swelling.

Dropsie. Self-indulgent, swelling, puffing, thirsty, insatiate, spungie.

Drosse. Rejected, dreggie, base, muddy, abject, fruitless, barren, use∣lesse.

Drugges. Vertuous, aromatick, spicie, outlandish, pretious, healthful, so∣veraign, oriental, easterne, sophistick, medicinal, Indian.

Drum. Bellowing, thundering, clamorous, ratling, noyseful, stirring, tatling, spirit-strring, warlick, martial, affrightning, frightful, threa∣ning, hollow, light, re-ecchoing, courage-working.

Drunkennesse. Swelled, nasty, loathsome, filthy, noysome, fulsome, spongie, brutish, beastly, swinish, wallowing, vomiting, spueing, apsh, bl∣ching, babling, teltale, foming, frothie, spawling, sottish, raving, flammering, reeling, lisping, faultering, surferting, diseaseful, fiery, rich-nosed, pot-tossing, infamous, volupuous, shame lesse, saucy, uncivil, staggering, indenturing, besotting, intoxi∣cating.

Duck. Diving, plunged, muddy, fearful, plain-foot, watry, fearful, soft, tender.

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Duel. v. Combate. Dugge. Sagging, milkie, noursing, soft, flowing, fluent, tender, pressed, hanging, flagging, lolling, veinie, streaked, azure-streaked, spicie, delicious, luxuriant.

Dung. v. Dirt. Dungeon. Dark, darkesome, nastie, loathsome, filthy, hollow, vult'e, glo∣mie, obscure, doleful, dankish, fustie, mustie, fulsome, aire∣lesse.

Dust. Scattered, dispersed, dry, small, filthy, thirsty, uncleanly, soy∣ling, summer, country, nasty.

Dwarfe. Low, deformed, short, diminutive, little, Pygmie, three-horse-loaves-high, short-statured.

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