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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Fable. VAin, lying, old, facetious, witty, devised, feined, fictious, ¦gar, frivolous, idle, ingenious, incredible, popular, doi•••• truthless, monstrous, mysterious, instructive.

Face. v. Countenance. Beauteous, roseate, inchanting, bewitching, enamouring, smili•••• wanton, downy, joyfull, pensive, lowring, wooing, unfullied, del••••¦ous, entrancing, attractive, heart-wounding, captivating, unp••••¦tern'd, unexampled.

Faction. Jarring, disagreeing, contentious, strifefull, seditious, furious, ••••¦multuous, litigious, siding, dissentious, blood-thirsty, wa•••• breeding.

Fagot. Flaming, bundled, sputtering, crackling, consuming, self-eati•••• heating, pitchy.

Fairie. Dancing, night-walking, nimble, active, stirring, tripping, sprigh¦full, cleanly, nipping, pinching, sporting, night-tripping, light, silen soft-foot, dairy-hunting, green-cloth'd, yellow-skirted.

Faith. Sence-conquering, quick-seeing, almighty, servent, powerful wonder-working, miraculous, zealous, assured, firm, adhering, inviola¦ble, constant, stedfast, unmoved, indissoluble, untainted, im¦mortall.

Fame. Wide, flitting, lasting, immortall, eternall, enduring, swift, l¦vish, winged, embalming, immortalizing, eternizing, surviving death-less, swelling, blabing, babling, long-tongued, wide-mouth••••

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pratling, twatling, gossipping, gracefull, swift-winged, flying, ather-footed, nimble-winged, Eagle-winged, unextinguished, nowning, sleek-tongued, glib-tongued, spreading, smiling, bright, ry, glorious, lying, tale-telling, light-heeld, spurring, posting, busie, anting.

Famine. Lean, pale, thinne, lean-chapt, pinching, impetuous, cruel, mea∣er, ravening, devouring, sharp-fang'd, clinging, lanck, lawless, ecessitating, constraining, panting, sharp, gaping, yawning, ra∣ing, greedy, gluttonous, barking, tedious, consuming, anxious, ard, torturing, torm enting, vexing, meager-fac't.

Fancy. Nimble, contriving, active, stirring, roving, vagrant, roaming, anging, forging, working, quick, pregnant, teeming, busie, mint∣ng, coyning, spinning, enritched, wealthy, forraign, shaping, in∣ustrious, travelling, inventive, plotting, studious, plodding, wan∣dering, projecting.

Fantasmes. v. Phantasmes, Farewell. Tedious, sad, grieved, loathed, last, sighed, lingring, pen∣sive.

Fast. Abstemious, lean, temperate, chaste, frugall, cleanly, moderate, healthy, wholesome, faint, meager, mortyfiing, flesh-subduing, re∣ligious, vertuous, sober, penetentiall.

Fate. v. Destiny. Driery, resistless. unpittying, flint-hearted, remorseless, unrelent∣ing, rugged, cruel, unchanged, unmoved.

Father. Loving, carefull, tender, sollicitous, grave; pious, reverend, honou∣red, indulgent, tender-hearted.

Fauchion. v. Blade. Keen, bright, slicing, slashing, cutting, slaughtering, murdering, quartering.

Faulcon. Towring, Princely, stooping, swift, thundering, couragious, freck∣led, wheeling, lured, high-pitched.

Fault. Secret, grievous, haynous, shamefull, petty, sinnefull, vicious, dishonest.

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Fawns. v. Satyr. Hairy, shaggy, tripping, rude, horned, nimble, swift-footed, wan•••• frisking, wood-haunting, lustfull, salacious, lecherous.

Fear. Jealous, sallow, chilly, reverentiall, pale, shallow, trembling, lo presaging, chilling, lumpish, faint, prophetick, superstitious, omino wanny, heartless, guiltie, cold, sullen, hovering, anxious, suspitio bloodless, pressing, ignominious, unresolved, doubtful, distracted, i¦perious, degenerous, restraining, pulling, distempered, impulsive, ¦vering, boggy, winged, ghastly, suggesting, projecting, contriving, i clowdy, muddy, shuddering, shallow, restless, pale-hearted, cream-fa•••• startling, wary, modest, blushing, impetuous, assaulting, palsied, pa••••¦lytick, heart-amazing.

Feast. Ambrosial, gladsome, mirthful, sumptuous, costly, delicious, delig••••¦ful, luxurious, joyous, buxome, frolick, pleasant, genial, ful-tabled, ••••¦ble-pressing, voluptuous, royal, Nectarean, tast-contenting, pala•••• pleasing, lavish, love-preserving.

Feather. Hovering, waving, tufted, soft, downy, plumy, lightsome, flauntin gay, gallant, pompous, gaudy, phantastick, trembling, hangi•••• smooth, velvet, flying, painted, wanton, stiffe, limber, freckled.

Feaver. Hateful, hot, burning, panting, malignant, intermitting conta¦ous, spotted, infectious, pulse-spurring, furious, trembling, pale, vi¦lent, cruel, grievous, pettish, pievish, angry, consuming, drying, te••••¦ous, lingering, inconstant, dy, thirsty, secret, eating, scorching, bloc•••• boyling.

Fee. Bribing, corrupting, unlawful, injurious, secret, eating, schorch∣ing, blood-boyling.

Feet. v. Foot. Field. Dusty, warlick, martial, bloody, dreadful, dismal, murdering, tented, blood-flowing.

Fields. Spiced, unambitious, gaudy, painted, flowry, tufted, checked, grassie, naked, open, wild, flowre-enamell'd, motly, dasied, smiling, verdant, herby. fragrant, diaperd, enflowred, fruitful, pregnant, teeming, em∣broydered, sportive, spatious, wide-skirted, fair-clothed, green-plush't, pleasant, delightful.

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Fenne. Moorish, drowsie, slimy, slothful, foggy, vaporous, unhealthy, pudly, ••••king, filthy, durty, muddy, black-turf'd, aguish.

Fetters. Shackling, binding, locking, close, strait.

Fictions. Lying, devised, fabulous, deluding, deceiving, coyned, minted, in∣••••nted.

Figge. Milky, delicious, fat, two-leaved, pleasant, sweet, lushious, broad∣aved, autumnal, sugred.

Fight. v. Battell. Dusty, furious, cruel, bloody, hot, dreadful.

Filberd. Clustered, shady, grovy, bushy, rank, shady, branching, twining, ••••mber.

File. Biting, toothed, smoothing, polishing, plaining, laborious, indu∣••••rious, gnawing, nibling, eating, fretting, wearing, correcting.

Fingers. Soft, sleek, delicate, active, nimble, plianr, industrious, curious, ainty, slender, round, unequal, Ivory, bending, wanton, alabaster, rembling, quavering, filching, pilfering.

Fire. Sprightly, active, ravenous, greedy, catching, hungry, wandering, evouring, crackling, flashing, lieentious, searching, all-consuming, ••••lf-eating, glowing, whirling, quick, embracing, clasping, climb∣ng, wastful, subtle, purging, amorous, furious, unsparing, rage∣ull, sparkling, flaming, furious, schorching, broyling, roast∣ng, melting, glittering, smoakie, covetous, avaritious, flame∣belching.

Firmament. Azure, wide-skirted, unmeasured, unfathomed, starrie, star-enchased, star-powdered, glittering, gilded, star-studded, rolling, wheeling, whir∣ling, spangled, arched, silver-paved, silver-bosom'd, all-clasping, bright, vaultie, glorious, Chrystal, lofty, open, wide, extended, beamy, radious, cloudy, flaming, turning, painted, all viewing, all-em∣bracing.

Firre. Tall, lofty, towring, heaven-kissing, skie-threatning, aspiring, un∣knotty, fragrant, shady, crispy, curled, strait, useful, flaming, oyly, fat, igh-topt, rozen-weeping.

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Fishes. Glittering, gliding, dancing, silver, silver-breasted, crooked, s•••• nibling, nimble, inveagled, credulous, shining, watery, slippery, sli•••• hungry, clammy, floating, greedy, silent, dumb, speechless, leapi•••• skipping, wrigling, azure, glassie, viscuous, glutinous, wandring, str••••¦ling, flegmatick, finny, silver-scal'd.

Fisher. Inveagling, deluding, tempting, deceiving, baiting, ho¦ing, patient, impatient, jugling, insnaring, trecherous, expecti•••• hoping, cunning, skilfull.

Flag. Spreading, waving, swelling, hanging, pregnant, winged, wa•••• stuft, floating, ruffling, rustling, trembling, dancing, furled, curled.

Flame. Insultive, wilder, hungry, catching, devouring, purging, clean•••• sucking, licentious, scattered, wasting, active, sprightly, waving, curs crisped, whirling, aspiring, mounting, towring, ragefull, venge•••• clasping, fretting, eating, sputtering, sparkling, lurking, embrac•••• subtle, amorous, courting, nimble, greedy, licking, ttembling, ••••¦nous, searching, hungry, crackling, glowing, ruddy, blushing, furio scorching, piercing, imbosom'd, darting, singing, choaking, gli¦ing, combustious, climbing, clambering, impetuous, violent, unam•••• oyly, belched, bright, busie, self-consuming, stragling, cheerfull, lig•••• some, proud, ambitious, quick, pursuing, carbonadoing.

Flash. v. Flame. Flattery. Flatterer. Base, servile, slavish, soft, file-tongu'd, smooth, oyly, courtly, smoo•••• tongu'd, lisping, obsequious, gilt-tongu'd, windy, dissembling, soo¦ing, melting, officious, pick-thank, cogging, pliant, sugered, fleari•••• fawning, traiterous, treacherous, cheating, over-reaching, jugl•••• circumventing, cunning, deluding, crafty, wily, sly, deceitfull, •••• spoken, smooth-worded, raking, winning, dawbing, candid, glass-fa•••• pyde, knee-crooking, clawing, tempting, tickling, colloguing, honey¦ed, crouching, glozing, insinuating.

Flegme. Cold, moyst, watery, unactive, dull, flow, noysome, unwholeso diseasefull, distilling, rheumatick.

Flea. Biting, nipping, skipping, twitching, sucking, sable, pestering, sle disturbing, peevish, blood-thirsty.

Fleece. Rich, wealthy, woolly, snowy, curled, crisped, soft, hary, wa•••• thirsty, drinking.

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Flie. Buzzing, pestering, sportive, wanton, tickling nimble, skipping, ubborn, froward, sucking, blood-thirstie, importuning, provo∣ing, saucie, lickorous, stinging, sun-delighting, mgot-blowing.

Flight. Dustie, speedie, hasty, confused, disordered, guilty, trembling, oasting, breathlesse, panting, fearful, ignominious, shameful, ha∣ened, accelerated.

Flint. Obdurate, hard, unrelenting, fiery, sparkling, fire-engende∣ing.

Flocks. v. Sheepe. Numerous, thronging, bleating, wealthy, curled, grazing, jolly, el-fleec'd, gamesome, sportive, wanton, goodly, wandering, ragling, shaggie, trooping, swarming, thriving, encreasing, ibling.

Flood. Rolling, rising, swelling, silver; aged, raging, incensed, gliding, preading, glancing, hurrying, high-wrought, shower-enhanced, oaming, wind-incensed, tumbling, impetuous, enchased, vaulting, eaping, dancing, cleansing, horned, ambitious, sea-ingulphed, oaring, snakie, gulphie, careering, azure, smooth-sliding, silver-rested, invading, sweeping, intruding, amorous, chiding, chrystal, icentious, curled, enraged, wavie, glassie, whirling, rustling, rush∣ng, pearly, wandring, stragling, angry, boyling, stormy, swallow∣ng, chafing, incroaching, ruffled, wrinkled, posting, surly, sullen, ustling, murmuring, muttering, surgie, tossing, proud, bubling, umbling, wrigling, frothy, sandy, muddy, swift-pacing, wheeling, mounting, bank-courting, uxorious.

Flora. Merry, mirthful, joyous, pleasant, delightful, painted, gay, gau∣dy, pompous, enamelled, pearly, amorous, wanton, lascivious, per∣umed.

Flower. Pregnant, spicie, fragrant, enamelled, gaudie, pyde, perfumed, heckered, smiling, vernal, verdant, tufted, taintless, unspotted, ummer-swelling, odorous, amorous, vermilion, purple, silver, dia∣ered, painted, freckled, blushing, vernal, glittering, delicious, mus∣ie, fading, short-liv'd.

Foame. Boyling, hissing, curled, froathie, angry, belched, snowie, hoary, oating, waving, chafing, ayrie,

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Foe. v. Enemy. Fogge. Unhealthy, unwholsome, diseaseful, gloomy, vaporous, choaking, misty, drowsie, dull, spongie, duskie, mufling, drooping, swarthy, dropsie, sullen, gouty, sleepy, stifling, stinking, ascending, smell-offending, contagious, infectious, fen-suckt.

Foole. Soft, dul-eyed, lean-witted, motley, knotty-pated, grosse, un∣conceiving, silly, shallow, admiring, stupid, sottish, doltish, dul-wi∣ed, beetle-brained.

Foote. Swift-pac't, hollow, flying, tripping, vaulting, wanton, nimble, active, dusty, ivory, delicate, tender, soft, silent, beauteous, ambro∣sial, snowie, silver, stalking, trampling.

Force. Male, masculine, mastering, manly, domineering, imperious, compulsive, commanding, tyrannizing, couragious, sinewie, rob∣stious, untamed, impetuous.

Forehead. v. Brow. Stately, smooth, sleeke, beauteous, comely, delicious, maj∣stick.

Forest. Hoary, leavie, shady, salvage, verdant, fragrant, shaggie, glooy, mssie, grassie, rockie, rough, wild, desert, wide-skirted, devio••••, vast, uncoth, melancholy, unfrequented, sullen, pathless, unpeo¦pled, beast-haunted, silent, bushie, shrubbie, ecchoing, tufted, br••••∣ly, spatious, mast-bearing, dreadful.

Forester. v. Swain. Forgetfulnesse. Darke, shady, obscure, rusty, rude, musty, moldy, unkind, d••••∣courteous, cruel.

Fornace. Flaming, burning, scorchng, scalding, flame-belching, sput∣ring, sparkling, hollow, smoakie, devouring, sulphureous, ••••∣pouring.

Fortitude. Daring, valiant, valourous, adventurous, prudent, attempti•••• undertaking, undaunted, unquelled, unconquered, noble, und¦jected, majestick, manly, couragious.

Fortune. Wheeling, uncertain, unconstant, giglet, lying, delud••••••

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imperious, commanding, domineering, tyrannizing, trecherous, injurious, envious, cruel, ••••epdame, dreadful, pernicious, peevish, froward, wanton malicious, mocking, flattering, audacious, almigh∣ty, disasterous, turning, slippery, perfidious, proud, stubborn, ma∣lignant, fullen, surly, insolenr, licentios, lawless, fickle, hood∣winkt.

Fountain. Chrystal, gushing, rustling, silver, gliding, purling, pearly, wee∣ping, bubling, gugling, chiding, clear, grasse-fringed, mosse-frin∣ged, sacred, grasse-margend, mosse-margend, trickling, soft, delici∣ous stragling, dancing, vaulting, murmuring, muttering, wispering, pratling, twatling, sweet-rolling, swelling, rising, sparkling, flow∣ing, frothy.

Fowler. Subtle, crafty, wily, skilful, cunning, treacherous, ensnaring, tempting, deceiving, inveagling, alluring, expecting, hoping, wary.

Fox. Wily, sly, subtle, theevish, ravenous, greedy, stinking, strong-breath'd, bush-taild, inearthing, snarling, cunning, crafty, devou∣ring, pullet-eating.

France. French. Fruitful, healthful, rich, wealthy, learned, warlick, courtly, ge∣nerous, ingenious, deviseful, active. industrious, lascivious, wan∣ton, stately, courteous, cavoleering, couragious, complementive.

Friend. Friendship. Faithful, constant, cordial, hearty, familiar, ayding, helpful, ad∣vantageous, affectionate, sacred, loyal, trusty, sociable, certain, pleasing, favouring, courteous, dear, loving, happy, firme, equal, agreeing, uniting, cementing, unchanged, inviolated, assured, peace∣ful, sincere, unloosed, united, conjoyned, chained, pliant, stable, glued, riveed, unanimous.

Frenzie. Raving, chafing, doting, witless, dreaming, hot, cholerick, fu∣rious, untamed.

Frog. Sprawling, croaking, loathsome, fulsome, querulous, complaint∣ful, noiseful, yellow, hoarse, fen-haunting, shrill, babling, gugling, spring-forespeaking.

Frost. v. Cold. Sharp, keene, grave, nipping, hoary, silver, chilling, icie,

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gray-haired, pinching, rough, biting, piercing, chattering, astrin∣gent, benumming, bleak, sap-consuming, stinging, gray-bearded.

Froth. v. Foame. Frowne. Surly, sullen, haughty, disdainful, proud, angry, churlish, currish, lumpish, rough, stormie, discontented, brow-pursing, cloudy, tem∣pestuous, supercilious, imperious, domineering, awful, tvrannizing, brow-knitting, brow-puckering, lowring, scowling, ruffled.

Fruit. Dangling, delicious, timely, tast-pleasing, palar-wooing, savoury, pleasant, sweet-smelling, leave-enwrapped, hanging, painted, de∣lightful, autumnal, expcted, desired, ambrosial.

Funeral. v. Obsequies. Fury. v. Anger. Blind, disordered, distempered, frantick, burning, giddie, stern∣visaged, head-strong, unruly, untamed, flaming, wrathful, snake∣haired, revengeful, sparkling, flame-eyed, lean-chapt, waspish, cruel, dzzy-eyed, flamie, grim, ghastly, enraged, barbarous, seditious, dreadful, pernicious, boyling, tempestuous, stormie, frothie, fant¦stick, impatient, unbrideled, transporting, impetuous, tumultuous incensing, distracted.

Furies. Snake-haired, dismal, haggish, hellish, malicious, envious, grim, sullen, ghastly, dreadful, swelling, snarling, blue-eyed, torch-bea∣ring, snake-crowned, squint-eyed, black-mouth'd, torturing, tor∣menting, heart-gnawing, spightful, blood-thirsty, strifeful, conten∣tious, debateful, revengful, Stygian, inexorable, deformed, missh∣pen, ugly, hideous, mischievous, night-bone, flame-eyed,

Furre. Soft, warme, shaggie, cold defending, lining.

Furrow. Long, sliced, ridged, seed-noursing, crooked, dividing,

Furze. Bushie, shrubbie, combrous, prickly, ranke:

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