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.

Melt.

The pliant wax melts not before the fire, With such submission, nor the grassie spire, Crusted with ice, before the thawing ray Which Phaebus darts, when he divides the day Into its equal halfes. Like wax before the scorching flame. Or snow before the sun. Like waxen statues which the witches frame, When they are roasted by the charmed flame, Like melting bullets by the slinger cast. Melts away Like ice before the suns dissolving ray, As floods which frosts in ••cie fetters bind Thaw with the approaching sun, or southern wind. So the Hyme••••••an wax Relents with heat, which cha••ing thumbes reduce To pl••ant formes.