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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Title: 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.
Author: Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Johnson,; 1657.
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Subject terms: English poetry.; Epithets.; English language -- Rhyme -- Dictionaries.
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Aetna.
The vast Sicilian hill, whose jawes exspire
Thick clouds of dust, and vomits flakes of fire * 1.1
The hill that burneth with embowelled flames
Vomiting stones, and darkening showers of dust
The mount which smokes in curied darkness rolls,
Whence a black cloud sometimes is belched out,
Whose pitchy fume, and fiery sparks about,
Vent flakes of flame, which seeme the stars to lick,
Vomiting up unbowelled, mount-mold thick.
Working up rocks to heaven, and heaps of stones,
Venting from his vast paunch his fiery groanes,
Encelad's lightning half-burnt, corps 'tis said
Under this mighty pressing grave-stones laid,
Who through those chimney breaches breaths out fire
And when that weight his weary limbs doth tire
Sicilia shakes with rumbling noyse and cries,
And pitchie fogges muffle the frighted skies,
the urging flames come from
Sicilian Aetna's over-burthened wombe,
As great Typhaeus throwes his stones abroad
Prest with Inarim••'s eternal load.
The Cyclops forge.

Notes

* 1.1

v. Sandys Metam. lib. 5. p 191.

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