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.

Neptune

The aged father of the floods. The wavie Monarch. The great sea Admirall. The trident armed God, Whose state Is next to Ioves. Great ruler of the floods. The king of surges. The Saphyr God of seas. The Monarch of the sacred floods. The father of the swelling Maine. Cerulean God. The God whose trident calmes the Ocean.

The god that earth doth bind In brackish chains, He that girds earth in cincture of the sea, Whose vast embrace ensphears whole earth, He that all lands Girds in his ambient circle and in air, Shakes the curl'd tresses of his Saphyr hair. The watry King that holds the three tooth'd scepte••, The god that rides In his blue chariot o'r the surging tides, That makes the roaring waves shrink when they feel The heavy burthen of his pressing wheel, Whose threeforkt scepter rules the sea. T••e Saphyr visag'd God. Great master of the floods, The unresisted power of the deeps, King of waves, He that unlocks The gaping quicksands, undermines the rocks Saturns warry son. Joves watry brother. Sea Deitie. Tattarean god. The universall Admirall.