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.

V. Mays Contiuation of Lucan Lib. Oratour. v. Eloquent. Orgies.

Treading a frantick round. Bacchus mad Trieterick, The time in wild disguise, Scythonian matrons use to solemnize. Lyaeus three years feast. The Bacchides their leavie javelins wave, Woemen with men the base and nobler sort, Together to those unknown ••ites resort, On high Cy••haerons sacred top which rings With frant••ck songs, and shrill voic'd Bacchaualls, In Libers c••lebrated F••stivalls, Now on Edonian Pangaeus they tread, Now on the Thracian P••ndus lofty head, Their ••oins a sacred P••nthers skin ••evests, With r••ffled hair the ma••••ons hide their brests, And brandish leavie javelins lightly born. The Priest proclaims a solemn feast, The Dames and Maids from usuall labour rest, Wrapped in skins, their hair-laces unbound, And dangling tresses with wild lvy crown'd, They leavie spears assume, High Rhodope with Timbrels rings, Vines shade their brows, the rough hide of a Dear, Shog at their sides, their shoulders bear a spear.