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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Johnson,; 1657.
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Subject terms: English poetry.; Epithets.; English language -- Rhyme -- Dictionaries.
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Trees. v. Shade▪
The shady screens: The leavy covertures.
The birds leavy cage,
With bushy crowns, and leavy hats.
Whose curled tops deny the heavens great eye
To see the stock they were maintained by.
The standarts of the woods. Muff'd with hoary mosse.
Under whose shade the Nightingale would bring
Her chirping young, and teach them how to sing;
The woods most sad musitians thither hie,
As if't had been the Muses Castalie,
And warbled forth such elegiack strains
As struck the winds dumbe.
That stretcht their branching armes.
That give a welcome shelter to the beasts,
When scorching summer them with heat infests.