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.

Bright. v. Shining.

Brighter than the Moon, Then when sh•• spreads her Beams, and fills her Orb;

••s when the Sun darts through his golden hair ••is gaudy beams, into the lightsome Aire, More faire Phoebus nere Chariots through the guilded Aire, And though the Sun did hold his light away, You might behold this gem by its own day, Bright as the deathless gods. Bright as the Sun doth rise, after the night He calls ••' account, the Moon for all the light She ever borrowed, and hath all repaid, As Sol obscur'd in shrouds Of exhalations breaks through vanquisht clouds, As when the Sun subduing by his raies The muffling clouds, his golden brow displayes, So shone Aeneas golden tree, As makes a day•• of night. Bright as that star that last forsakes the skies That bears a light able to check the dark More bright Than is the starry senate of the night Brighter than the day Or new raisd Phoebus in his morning-ray The Sun holds down his head for shame, Dead with Eclipses, this when we but name, Shining as fair As Cynthia burnisht in her brothers hair, As may challenge the brightest day, the clearest Diamond.