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.

Time.

The eternal clock. Swift old dotard, Which glides away with undiscovered hast, And mocks our hopes. The nimble aged syre.

Swift speedy time feathered with flying houres, Whose constant course doth every thing devoure. That doth unglosse the flourish set on youth, And delves the paralels in beauties brow. Whose slippery wheele doth play In humane causes with inconstant sway, Motions swiftest measure. The motion of the ever whirling wheele. Devouring cormorant. That common arbitratour. The general invader. That ever flying minute, The moth of nature, and of a••t. Natures book▪worme. The shop and mint of change. The universal Justice, that tries all things. Untangler of all knots. Who greedy to devoure, His own and all that he brings forth. Is eating every piece of houre, Some object of the rarest worth. Truths aged father. The most abhorred Stratagems of night, Lurking in cavernes from the glorious light, By him perforce are from their dungeons hurld, And shew'd as monsters to the wondering world▪ Whose absence all the treasury of earth Cannot buy out. I••revocable time. Not all The wealth or treasures of the earth recall One of his swift-wing'd minutes back. The bald unbribed witnesse.