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 15, 2024.

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Hagge. MUmbling, withered, unhallowed, hellish, ugly, nasty, fulsome, hideous, furious, malicious, mishapen, cruell, mischievous, ill-king, grumbling, muttering, spightfull, dreadfull, revengefull frightfull, shameless, five-turning, image-pricking, bloody.

Haggard. v. Hawke. Haile. Skipping, icy, pebble, pelting, congealed, scattered, shattered, ••••pestuous, crackling, ratling, impetuous, Crystall, Thundering, ne-spoyling.

Haire. Braided, dangling, sleavy, silken, scattered, shining, pleated, curled, otty, ruffled, fluent, artless, snarled, flaring, uncomposed, shaggy, mbrosian, gracefull, fragrant, waving, beauteous, amber-orient, angled, crisped, frizled, roseate, bushy, disheveld, disparkled, shady, iting, wrigling, gilded, snaky, spreading, wiry.

Hammer. Massie, conquering, victorious, subduing, cruell, tyrannizing, en∣••••cing, beating, knocking, working, laborious, industrious, rude, ystererous, robustious.

Hand. Officious, snowy, lilly, marble, Ivory, Alabaster, smooth, soft, fleek, ••••tin, velvet, thrifty, frugall, tender, trembling, active, stirring, labo∣ous, industrious, revengefull, veiny, ayding, sinewy, nervous, delicate, mbrosiall, well-proportioned, beauteous.

Hangings. Sumptuous, costly, gaudy, painted, embroydered, pendant, state∣••••, curious, courtly.

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Hanniball. Valiant, couragious, cruell, grimme, stern, fierce, undaun•••• furious, Lybian, unconquered, Carthaginian, politick, wise, w••••¦lick, Martiall, thundering, prudent, adventurous, renowned, sto•••• subtle.

Happiness. v. Beatitude. Coveted, desired, unfathomed, flowry, enamouring, endless, ••••¦trancing, ravishing, soul-raping, soft, un-disturbed, un-in••••¦rupred.

Harbenger. Preparing, fore-running, winged, pourveying, providing.

Hardness. Stiffe, stiffening, rigid, unrelenting, unmoved, unyeelding, sulle surly, resisting.

Hare. Purblind, fearfull, timerous, trembling, turning, doubling, ••••¦ing, fur-footed, short-lived, lecherous, fruitfull, bushy, brown•••• brindled, squeaking, speedy.

Harlot. Unchaste, uncivill, lascivious, wanton, lustfull, rampant, sal¦ous, dissolute, immodest, rotten, alluring, enticing, tempt•••• perjur'd, mercenary, abscene, filthy, persidious, shameless, impud•••• dissembling, infamous, dallying, notoious, bawdy flearing, gadd•••• musty, nasty, infectious, pocky, loathsome, painted, cancred, train•••• ichy, goatish, rammish, unblushing.

Harmony. According, sweet, numerous, agreeing, melodious, pleasant, j••••¦full, gladsome, measur'd, diaposon'd, soul-invading, soul-raping, ••••¦trancing, Seraphick, delicious, enchanting, encharming, ••••¦vishing.

Harp. Melodious, harmoneous, stringed, resounding, Thracian, Aoni•••• crooked, Ivory, gilded, Lesbian, pleasant, warbling, quavering, ••••¦morous, merry, wanton, sweet-sounding, Bstonian, A••••¦dian.

Harpie. Ravenous, devouring, gurmandizing, gluttonous, greedy, theevi•••• insatiate, saucy, lickerous, glutting, winged, deformed, nasty, ug•••• loathsome, raping, Stimphalian.

Harrow. Toothed, bruising, raking, clod-breaking.

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Hart. Long-liv'd, fearfull, timerous, light-foot, fleet, chased, panting, andering, weeping, braying, long-aged, trembling.

Harvest. Joyfull, fruitfull, wealthy, copious, thankfull, rich, hopefull, ope-answearing, sickce-hlunting, sun-burnt, thirsty, laborious, toyle∣me, weaty, gain-full, teeming, reaping.

Hasell. Bushy, branched, moyst, shady, leavy, rank.

Hast. Impatient, desperate, Eagle-winged, swift-foot, sweaty, panting, eathless, flying, rembling, undiscovered, undiscerned, unper∣ived, rash, hudling, expeditious, speedy, important, unheady, busie, weeping, toyling, ungoverned, regardless, careless, poasting, auspi∣ovus, unhappy, labouring, willing, poasting, auspicious, unhappy, borious, dispatchfull, quick, preposterous, blustering, inconsi∣erate.

Hate. Hatered. v. Envie. Heart-gnawing, fretting, sullen, full-rooted, mortall, inveterate, evengefull, murderous, deadly, cancred, blear-eyed, Vatinian, ferall, nreconciled.

Haven. Sure, safe, desired, long-expected, joyfull, weedy, wished, anchor∣ng, peacefull, open, spatious.

Hawke. Towring, eager, sharp-set, gryping, preying, theeving, killing, ••••aring, long-wing'd, fleet-wing'd, high-pitchd.

Hay. Witherd, foddering, loose, botle, botteld, sun-burnt, stiffe, dry, ••••nn'd.

Hazzard. Adventurous, dangerous, doubtfull, uncertain, fatall.

Head. Towring, stately lofty, sence-lodging, understanding,

Health. Active, desired-wished, perfect, joyous, sweet.

Heap. Crowded, clustered, thronging, massie, unfarhomed, unmeasured, ounting, stored, wealthy, eopious.

Hearb. Powerfull, vertuous, soft, sloory, green-clothed, sprouting, fragrant, leasant. odorous, sweet-smelling, wholesome, serviceable, usefull, ruitfull, medicinall.

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Heard. Horned, bellowing, grazing, sttagling, wandering, forrest-h¦ing, trouping, numerous, swarming, thronging, wealthy.

Heart, Melting, marble, rocky, infractuous, winding, treasurous, tho full, passionate, wounded, bleeding, tender, obdurate, relenting, relenting.

Hearth. Flaming, chearfull, smoaky.

Heat. Sweltering, schorching parching, quickning, active, boyling, ••••¦ling, seething, scalding, roasting, soultry, stewing, baking, bu•••••• glowing, singing, smoaking, smothering, dry, flaming, drying, vent, ardent, sweating, stifling, consuming, devouring, faint, spar•••• swarthy, dusky, sutchy.

Heathen. Misbelieving, obstinate, barbarous, superstitious.

Heaven. Spangled, azure, arched, silver-paved, rolling, whirling, all-cla•••• bright, vaulty, starry, star enchased, star-enameld, wheeling, s•••• bosom'd, chrystall, lofty, turning, moving, glittering, unfatho•••• unmeasured, star powdered, all-viewing, all-embracing, ••••▪skirted.

Hedge. Thorny, bushy, thick-set, shrubby, woven, leavy.

Hedge-hog. Bristly, thorny, prickly, thorn-backt, armed.

Height. Towring, stately, ambitious, aspiring, slippery, stupendious.

Hell. Insatiate, devouring, dismall, vasty, gaping, yawning, wide-mou••••¦ed, jew∣stretcht, dreadfull, pale, dark, stinking, wofull, painfull, ••••¦menting.

Hellebore. Brain-purging.

Helmet. Crested, plumy, dreadfull, massie, pointed, weighty, feather•••• bright, glittering, glistering, shining, gilded, bristled, threatn•••• batter'd, burnisht.

Help. v. Aid. Hemlock. Cold, poysonous, green, fatall, deadly.

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Hen. Clocking, brooding, hatching, loving, young, protecting▪

Hercules. Brawny, massie, un-conquered, un-wearied, stern, laborious, heaven∣••••ring, victorious, fearless, sullen, sturdy, sinewy, fierce, grimme, ndering.

Heresie. Obstinate, wilfull, damned, cursed, dissentious, contradictious, ind, Church-rending, pernitious, seditious, proud, over-weening, ntastick, self-opinioned, factious, war-kindling, unlucky.

Hermaphrodite. Ambiguous, promiscuous, mixed, sex-confused, mongrell, neuter, eminate.

Hermit. v. Hermitage. Humble, cold; sad, melancholy, pensive, sedentary, pious, devout, igious, sullen, zealous, retir'd, recluse, abstemious, lovely, studious, okish, thoughtfull, meditating, withered, sequestered, aged, oystered.

Herse. Sable, mournfull, pensive, black, balefull, sullen, dismall, pittied, moaned, bewayled.

Hill. v. Mountain. Stately, moss-thrumb'd, hearby, climbing, lofty, steepy, proud, aspi∣ng, towring, mounting, sky-kissing, sky-threatning, cloud-in-wrap∣••••d, high-browed, shaggy, supercilious, aire-invading, str-brushing, elling, rising, woody, bushy, ascending, rocky, craggy, insolent, ••••oud-headed.

Hind. Nimble, tripping, light-foot, skipping, speedy, swift-pac't, light∣cold, timorous, fearfull, trembling, shie, skittish, wanton, isking.

Hinges. Grinding, tatling, turning, twatling, creaking, speaking, blabbing, ••••le-telling.

Hippocrene. Wit-infusing, Chrystall, purling, Poet-prompting, Enthusiastick, ••••spiring, intrancing.

Hog. Wallowing, tumbling, rolling, miry, nasty, sluggish, grunting, ristled, greedy, hungry, devouring, gluttonous, filthy, fatted, full∣orged, drowsie.

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Holyness. Pious, devout, precise, strict, religious, conscientious, grave, rig••••¦obedient, legall, upright.

Honesty. Strict, rigid, just, equall, legall, even-hand, uncorrupted, ••••¦tainted, upright, unmoved, plain-dealing, simple.

Honey. Fragrant, Bee-wrought, delicious, lushious, nectareous, yello gilded, clammy, viscous, frothy, fulsome-

Honey combe, Spongy, delicious, nectareous, porows, parched, sqeezed, Be¦wrought.

Honour. Clear, fair, bright, flatuous, windy, blazing, pompous, gaudy, pa••••∣ted, envied, glittering, radiant, beaming, eternall, enduring, lasti•••• triumphant, inflaming, encouraging, provoking, egging, sp∣ring, incensing, prompting, swelling, fading, vaunting, flaunti•••• glorious, tympanizing, shining, popular, prodigious, unfathom' frothy, waxen-winged.

Hoof. Horned, hollow, arched, crooked, solid, printing, impressive.

Hook. Crooked, bowed, catching, intangling, inveagling.

Hope. Early, blooming, promising, flattering, fawning, pleasing, heart-•••• holding, encouraging, soothing, towring, mounting, ambitious, ••••¦dacious, low, dejected, lofty, expecting, becalming, quieting, aspiting enlarging, feeding, comfortable, deceitfull, trayterous, bewitchi•••• uncertain, inchanting, charming, spurring, covetous, tedious, insole•••• inveagling, credulous, couragious, thirsty, quickning, persw∣sive.

Horn. Writheld, sprouting, bending, sounding, crooked, pointed, fork•••• offensive, branches, rigid, stiffe, moony, hoarse, knaggy, kno•••• ragged.

Horne. Waspish, stinging, buzzing, hors-bread, pievish, angry, pettish.

Horrour. Cold, pale, wan, ghastly, black, dreadfull, trembling, affrighting amazing.

Horse. foaming, chafed, barbed, warlike, fierce, prancing, horn-o••••,

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couragious, panting, trapped, insulting, careering, impetuous, in∣lustrious, generous, curvetting, nimble, stirring, laborious, swea∣ing, swift-paced, high bounding, stamping, bit-champing, spur∣beying, speedy, hasty, posting, winged.

Host. v. Army. Numerous, puissant, powerful, victorious, couragious.

Hound. Ranging, yelping, yelling, fulmouth'd, cheared, deep-mouthed, wel-sented, quick-sented, hungry, greedy, devouting, fawning, pu∣suing, eager, chasing, swift, speedy, quick-nosed.

Hour. Fleet, light, creping, sliding, gliding, riding, light-foot, light∣heeld, nimble, running, pacing, posting galloping, passing, flying, winged, hasty, speedy, swimming, tripping, stealing, leaping, am∣bling, trotting, spurring, feathered, soft-foote, slippery, swift-win∣ged, swift-paced, headstrong, unrestrained, uncurbed, smooth-sli∣ding, equal, unrecalled, succeeding, nere-returning, changing, yeel∣ding, careering rolling, wheeling.

Humility. Low, pliant, submissive, obedient▪ obsequious, pleasing, grace∣ful, winning, taking, resigned, meeke, mild, crouching.

Humour. Distilling, cold, salt, rheumatick, unhealthy, diseaseful, flowing, corrupting, fretting, viscous, clammy, flowing, glewie, vaporous, oping.

Hunger. Griping, chearless, meager, starved, leane, pale, thin-chapt, sharp-fang'd, clinging, lanke, panting, sharp, gnawing, fretting, barking, torturing, tormenting, thin-gutted.

Hunter. Gleesome, jolly, gamesome, eager, wood-ranging, chasing, pur∣suing, patient, speedy, wandering, roaming, toyling, busie, search∣ing.

Husband. Loving, careful, loyal, disloyal, jealous, suspitious, embracing, hugging, chearing.

Huske. v. Chaffe. Fruitlesse, empty, swelling, useless.

Hyacinth. Soft, purple, blushing, beauteous, wanton, tender, way∣ling.

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Hyades. Showry, stormy, tempestuous, cloudy, weeping.

Hybla. Honey-breeding, fruitful, wealthy, Sicilian, flowry, fragr•••• rich, lofty, Trinacrian

Hydra. Lernean, snakie, losse-gaining, fruitful, fierce, pernicious, poyse∣nous.

Hymen. Joyous, mirthful, frolick, smiling, genial, chast, torchie, crowned, soft, pleasant, feastful, flowry.

Hypocrite. Saint-seeming, sniveling, dissembling, jugling, painted, chea∣ting, gulling, glosing, masked, visarded, secret, lurking, hollow, hearted, lip-holy, temporizing, time-serving, disguised, forml, double-hearted.

Hyssop. Phlegme, purging, cleansing, bitter.

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