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.

Amaz'd.

I more amaz'd than Circe's, prisoners, when They felt themselves turn beasts— Amaz'd they stand, as when Joves tresses shake And make the earth and stars though fixed, quake, Mankind and all the worlds affrighted frame Astonisht shook. So amazed stood Deucalion, when he saw the swallowing flood, Or when he heard the ambiguous oracle. So amazed were The sad Heliades, when they behold The creeping Bark their tender limmes infold.

Amazement seiz'd him. As if his soul did in his body sleep. So in the seas stood the Phaenician ship That brought Ulysses home. As if he had lookt on the Go••gans face, Struck with a deep amazement Like a man gone a far journey from himself. transform'd with wonder Senceless he stood, as one struck down by thunder. More amaz'd, than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven, Figur'd all o're with meteors. Stands like a breathing stone