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.

Shade.

The native Screen. The leavie coverture, A place to shun The scorching fury of the sun.

An awfull shade, The meeting boughs exiling Phoebus made, Natures green network. Leavie Canopie, Which fortifies the visage from the sun, The bushie tops do bid the sun forbear, And checks, the proud beams that would enter there, Whose leaves still muttering, as the air doth breath With the sweet bubling of the Spring beneath, Doth rock the senses whilst the small birds sing, Lulled asleep with gentle murmuring, Where lightfoot Fairies sport at prison baies. The pleasing lining of the trees. Where the trees so lovingly enterlaced one another, that th•••• could resist the strongest violence of eye-sight. Where beauty might beguile the sun from looking on her. A rampier against the sunns rage, Where the shadows seem to woe The love-sick passenger to come and sit, And view the beauties nature strows on it Where every tree Embrac'd his neighbour to an unity. Nature in leavie Ne••work arbours made, Sconce from the suns distempers. A bulwark from the suns invasion, The shelter from the suns off••nsive rage, The leavie vales which Phoebus beams keep out.