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.

Muses.

••oddesses of verse. The sacred nine. ••amassian girls, Aonian Maids, Apollo'•• quire. ••he presidents of verse and sacred numbers. ••he learned maid•• which by the mossie banks ••f drizling Helicon in airy ranks, ••read roundelayes upon the silver sand, ••hilst shaggie Satyrs tripping o'r the strand, ••and still at gaze, and yield their senses thrall To the sweet cadence of their Madrigalls. ••he learned ••isters of the sacred well, Those virgins imps of Mneme which do bring D••ws of invention from their sacred Spring. The virgin Choristers of Castalia. ••••eet Maids of memory. Fair Thespian Ladies, That on the two topt mountains dwell And daily drink of the Castalian well, The heavenly sisters by whose sacred skill, Sweet sounds are rai••'d upon the forked hill Of high Parnassus, they whose tuned strings, Can cause the birds to stay their nimble wings. And silently admire, before whose feet, The lambs as fearlesse with the lions meet, Which did the harp of O••pheus so inspire, He from the Stygian Lake could safe retire, And did Amphions heart with vertue fill, That even the stones were pliant to his will. The sweet infusers of diviner strains. That sitting sing upon the flowry banks Of sacred Helicon in spangled ranks, Pierian Quire. Calliope, Clio, Erato, Tnalia, Melpomene, ••erpsicore, Evterpe, Polyhimnia, Urania.