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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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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English poetry.
Epithets.
English language -- Rhyme -- Dictionaries.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55357.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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Page 264

Body.

The lay part of the man, cloud, shroud, robe of flesh, obe of clay, walls of better clay, fleshie cloud, fleshe shroud, fair prison of the soul, house of mooving clay.

The fair shrine of a fairer saint. The fleshy vaile, case. The souls sheath. The fleshie lanthorne of a light divine. The souls clothes, garments, apparrel. The souls moving inne, house, closet, cloyster, chamber, study. Living charnel house. Sack of bones, gown of clay. The souls casket temple, shrine, boxe, case, pallace, shell, chest, cos∣fin, dark-lantorne. The living tombe. The souls dark prison. A province packt up in two yards of skin, Frail mansion of distempered clay. Boxe of flesh, clay. Frail mansion of mortalty. The clayie tenement. The soules ivory case. Stirring earth. The clay lodging of the soul. The souls huske. The souls uneasie clothing. The clothes of flesh and blood. Better compacted dust. The fleshie tabernacle. The narrow mansion of the soul. Walls, whose laths are plaistered ore with flesh and blood. Better motar. Natures first robe of home spun cloth.
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