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.

V.

Vale. Valley.

WHere the mild whispers use. Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whole fresh looks the swart star sparely looks. Embroidered o'r with quaint ennamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernall flowers. ••ac'd with silver rills, Encompass'd round with gently rising hills.

V. Pleasant Place. Valiant. Valour.

Puissance, p••owesse, fortitude, chivalty. The souldiers vertue, the soul of war. A man made all of fire. Attemptive spirits. ••ndaunted, high, erected spirits, The dead quake in their grave to think of them. One that dare prop the sun if it should fall, Dares grasp the bolt from thunder, And through a Canon leap into a town. One that dare die next his heart in cold blood, That leads the fight, and lets no danger passe Without improvement. The fl••nts he treads upon.

Sparkle with lustre from his arms, As if in love with danger, That life can sobetly despise. Undaunted spirits that encounter those, Sad dangers, we to fancy scarce propose, That deride Pale death, and meet with triumph in a tomb, Who to pale fear, Whispering danger never lent an ear. That sells his life dear to his foes, Whom dangers do encourage and invite A spirit scorning justest fears. As if incapable of fears, Who, when a foot, is mounted upon an high spirit, Flying nothing more than the mention of flying, The sweetnesse of life cannot so flatter the palate of the soul, as make him swallow the bitternesse of an eternall disgrace. As the Indian for his gem doth sound the stood, He dives for honour in a sea of blood, Glazing his valour in a crimson flood, A spirit that hath outgrown his years, Trampling depressing fears, Under his valiant feet, sets bravely on The Front of danger, 'Twixt whom an fear there's an antipathy. A spirit that durst war against the fates. That dare set his naked breast Against the thunder. Giving a Majesty to adversity. Making time hast it self to be witnesse of their honours▪ and o•• place witnesse to another of the truth of their doings. Men of such prowesse, as not to know fear in themselves, a•• yet to teach it others that had to deal with them. A courage apt to climb over any danger. Observing few complements in matters of arms, but such as pro•• anger did indite to him. Giving as many wounds as blows, as many deaths as wound That can face the murdering Canon, When it blows ranks into the air like chaffe, A courage that knows not how to fear. As full of spirit as the Moneth of May. A spirit of greater confidence, Than can admittance give to thoughts of fear. Will fight untill his thighs with dares

Be almost like a sharp quill'd porcupine, Every gash he receives is a grave for him that made it, That being angry doth forget He ever heard the nime of death. An unaffrighted mind. Didaining fortune with his brandisht steell, Which smoakt with bloody execution, Like Valours minion carved out his passage. Bellona's Bridegroom, ushrinking spirit, So daring that he would Go on upon the gods, kisse lightning, wrest The engine from the Cyclops and give fire At face of a full cloud. Looks like Apollo, rais'd to the worlds view, The minute after he the Python slew. An heart that scorneth danger, With a brain Beating for honour▪ Like Eagles, his undazzeled eyes Affront the beams, that from the steel arise. That looks on his enemies with a kind of noble heavinesse, no insul∣tation. A spirit that to sullen fear, Whispering death ne'r lent a gentle ear, Like to the Roman Scevola dothstand, Bathing in flames his Salamander hand, And with a sober scorn doth laugh to see The worst incensed fates can do. Amazing death, to see with dying pride, In her pale chariot him in triumph ride, That wear their lives at their swotds point, Whose courage out-brave all fear,

If he do not live to enjoy the honour he purchaseth with his blood he leaves the world his Executor, and to it bequeaths the rich in∣heritance of his memory.

Ready to disburse his life upon a good occasion. Adventuring upon such designs, as have no more probability, Than is enough to keep them from being impossible. That ne'r saw fear, but in the face of the enemy, Hands of steel, and hearts of diamond. His valour like the Fairy Arthurs shield, Which but disclos'd awak'd the weaker eyes Of proudest foes, and won the doubtfull field,

A God-like courage, which no soft delight Can weaken, nor the face of death affright. A courage us'd to victory as an inheritance, Having the Thracian God tied to their swords, More than his body was to Vulcans chain. A wise well tempered valour. Those gyants, death and danger, Are but his ministers, and serve a master, More to be feard than they, and the blind Goddesse Is led amongst the captives in his triumphs.

Veins.

Twining M••anders of the blood. The bloods meandting ••••sterne•• The purple channels of the blood. The pipes of blood. The laces of the skin. The purple conduit pipes. The crimson brooks. Fair rivulets which for the food Of living bodies bear the crimson flood To every part, within the liver meet, And there with kisses numberlesse do greet Themselves, and as they through each other glide, Make many knots, as if they took a pride In their strange foldings, and themselves did please, In their admired Apostomoses. The airy paths Where ruby fairies dance their liquid rounds. The chrystal cases of the blood. The azure chaines. Purple Labyrinth. Those saphyr colour'd brooks, Which conduit like with curious crooks, Sweet Islands make in that fair land. The natural gates, and allies of the body. The bodies purple lanes. A zure rivulets.

Venus.

The queen of beauty. Cyprian Queen. Paphian Goddesse. Loves fair Empresse. The power that rules in love▪ The Cyprian Deity. The Queen of all that's faire. Shee that governs chamber sport. Mother of love. Loves golden arbitresse. Cupids beauteous mother. Vulcans lovely wife. Mars gamesome mistresse. The sea born Queene. The fair wife of the sooty blacksmith God. Loves sportive mother. Loves lascivious dame.

The rosy Queen of love. Fair Erycina. Great Queen of Paphos, and Cythaera's shrine. The blushing Queen of love's Drawn in a chariot by a team of doves, ••ut whips her doves, and smiling rides away. ••e froth-borne goddesse. Laughter loving dame. Tho C••idos, and bright Cyclads holds. Tho Paphos with pair'd swans doth view. That from the Ocean drawes her pedigree. Neptunes Neece, ••ormed out of Ambergreece. Who in her snowie armes The God of rage confines, Her whispers are the charmes, Which only can divert his fierce designes. The pleasant Queen to Paphos thence retires, Where stood her temple; there an hundred fires, Whose fragrant flame Sabaean gums devoures, Bl••ze on as many altars crown'd with flowers. Aged Anchysa's sprightly wife. Adonis goddesse. Aeneas beauteous mother. Idalian Queen. Samian goddesse. Acidalian mother. Bright Cyth••rea.

Verse. v. Poetry.

Weighty numbers. Victorious rime. Revenge their masters death, and conquer time. Soul-raping numbers. Soul entrancing laies. Harmonious language.

Victory. v. Valiant. Triumph.

Victory doth play upon their dancing banners. Upon their swords S••ts laurell'd victory, and smooth successe Is strew'd before their feet. Returnes laden with spoyles and honour. Bright conquest doth her silver wings display, Perch't on their standards. Victory their inheritance.

Doubtful victory.

The wars successe in doutful ballance hunge. Slow v••ctory in choice yet what to do. With doubtfull wings 'twixt either army flew. Conquest with doubtfull 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Hover'd upon their lances. The ballances of fate did equal stand

For either Army. They fight on equall terms, Fortune deliberates, As not resolved yet what she should do, On equall hopes they both engaged were, And fury joyn'd with fury equal held, The ballance straight, whilst doubting victory Seem'd not a while resolved whose to be, Like to the mornings fight, When dying clouds contend with growing light.

Vine.

The limber tree that yields the sprightly drink. Bacchus uxorious tree. Grape charged tree. That bears the juicie clusters. Life chearing tree. —Which cut, abounds With budding gems, and prospers in her wounds.

Violent.

Like lightning crushing through the justled clouds, As when a tempest raves, Stoops from the clouds and cuffs the swelling waves, Then like a Lybian lion round beset, Arm'd with an high despair, and rage as great, Carelesse of wounds and weapons, forth he goes, And sells a loathed life, dear to his foes. As heavens sulphureous flash Against proud mountains, surly brows doth dash, As hasty powder fir'd Doth hurry from the fatall Canons womb. Like that fierce bird, which from the yielding skies, At Joves command with fierie lightning flies, Of all the winged crew ordain'd the head, For faithfull service in his Ganimede, Whom youth had native vigour forth have drawn, Labours to try, which were before unknown, And those soft winds that fan the lively spring, Have taught with fear his new flights managing, When he rais'd with a generous courage flies Into the field, his strength to exercise. Or like fell dragons, that like force do vie, Is train'd by hope of food, or victory. Or like a lion new wean'd from the teat O••'s yellow damme, who goats intent to meat, Spying in verdant fields resolveth straight,

O•••• him his youthfull jaws to sa••iate, ••••e them &c. •• when south-winds on surly billows ride, ••hilst showry Pleiades the clouds divide, ••••as two shaped Ausidus amain, ••••s bellowing forth along th' Apulian plain, ••hen he with rage and swelling floods abounds. ••••eatning a Deluge to the t••lled grounds.

V. Lightning. Thunder. Wind. Tempest. Violet. v. Primrose.

The violets which first appear, By their fine purple mantles known, ••••d as the virgins of the year, Thinking the Spring to be their own. The purple offsprinsi•• of the prime.

The resolved fair Virgin.

Which contracted to her own bright eyes, ••eeds her lights flame with self substantiall fewell, ••aking a famine where abundance lies, Whose uneard womb ••••dains the tillage of good husbandry. ••nthrifty lovelynesse. Beauteous niggardnesse. Profitlesse usurer, that trafficks with her self alone. The seal that stamps no print, Natures Apostate. June in her eyes, in her heart January, The cruell fair one. Venus Anchorite. That will leave the world no copy of her graces. Fair cruelty clasp'd in her own embraces, Who dead, The worms must rifle for her maidenhead, Like Daphne she as lovely and as coy.

Ʋlysses.

The Grecian wanderer. Old Laertes son, He that so many men and Cities saw. Wise Laertides. Penelopes grave husband. ••jax coorrivall for Ulysses arms. The politician of the Greeks. That wisely stopt his ear, And would not the inchanting Syrens hear, Whose mates by Magick wine, Circe transformed to the shapes of swine. The well-tongued Lord of Ithaca.

Ʋnchangeable. v. Firm.

Inviolable as the stygian lake, Eternall as the book of fate, That never knoweth change or date, Like the unremoved rock. Like to the Laws of Medes and Persians. That knew no alteration. Beyond the reach of change.

Ʋnhappy.

In whom All stars conspire to make affliction perfect, Far more than is The common heap of humane miseries His mother bore him to. Fortunes utmost spight Pursues our actions. The blind goddesse her tennis-ball. Born under unpropitious stars, malignant influence. Unthrifty planets ruled at his birth, A sullen star was at his lucklesse birth, The Lord Ascendant of the house. Libra in his full aspect, And cursed Scorpius with beams direct, And Capricorn that rules the gloomy west, His Horoscope with cruell rage infest, Whose thread of life is spun Of black and dismall wooll. v. Miserable.

Ʋnlearned. v. Ignorant. Fool. Vnluckie v. Ominous.

Dismall, fatall, inauspicious, Like to the omen of ill boding owls, This nor Juno blest, Nor Hymen, nor the graces grac'd that feast, The snake-hair'd furies held the sputting light, From funeralls snatcht, and made the bed that night, Th' ill-boding owl upon the roof was set. Tereus and Progne with such Omens wed, But neither Hymeneus usuall words, Nor chearfull looks, nor happy signs affords, The torch his hand sustain'd still sputtering rais'd A sullen smoak, nor yet though shaken blaz'd. The event worse than the Omen, Such Omens wa••ted on. Orpheus his marriage with Euridice. The funerall owl thrice rent.

The aire with ominous screeches, Such Omens waited on Lascivious Myrrha to her fathers bed.

Ʋnspeakable.

Though Phaebus should an hundred tongues bestow, A wit that should with full invention flow, All Helicon infus'd into my brest, Yet could not this, for all this be exprest. Had I as many tongues as Argus eyes, As Xe••xes arrows that did cloud the skies. As many mouths as Sybills had of years, Or fruitful Gargarus hath ripened ears, &c. We may as well, Descibe the joyes of heaven, and pains of hell. So vast, That all the act, and power of speech is wast.

Voluptuous. v. Glutton.

Master of unexampled luxury. Sardanapalus drown'd in soft excesse. That follow passion and voluptuous sence▪ That revel out their lavish dayes. Like one of wise Ulysses foolish mates, Sons of earth, enthrall'd to sence. Dark, narrow souls which drown'd in foggy flesh, Do never dream of higher happinesse. Plung'd in soft delights. Stues his heart in mirth, Crushing the child of sorrow in the birth. Whose flat delights on earth do creep and grow. A soul lost in the flesh. Lethargick slumbering soules. Lanke soules that in no other thing delight, But what may please the Brutish appetite. Melting away in pleasures wanton lap. Licentious Libertines, That practise in the present those delights, Hereafter promised by the Alcoran. Hard hearted evil men, Who vertue think a school name, and no God But abject pleasure. Oyling the wings of time with unctious pleasures. Melting down their youth In different beds of lust, and never learn

The icie precepts of respect, but follow The sugred game before them. That treads the primrose path of dalliance. Their bathes the juyce of July-flowers. Spirit of roses and of violets. The milk of Unicorne, and Panthers breath Gathered in bags, and mixt with Cretan wines, Their drink prepared gold and amber. Wedded to sports they were, The Kallender for to divide his year, Making with time, his gamesome pastimes try Whether could show gretter variety. That revel out the nights In dalliance, and the day in loose delights.

Ʋsurer v. Covetous.

That undoes those he hath most interest in.

You are least beholding to him, when you are most obli∣ged, and he is lesse your friend, for the multitude of his courtesies.

Sits brooding ore his bags, And measures time, by counting of his gold.

Vulcan.

The famous fiery Artisan. The president of fire. The crook▪leg'd God. Venus lame husband. The cripple God. The sooty blacksmith God. Lemnian God that in his fiery shop, Hammers out thunderbolts on Aetna's top. The God whose face is smudg'd with smoke and fire. The God with collied cheeks and sooty beard. The poultfoot God. Aetna's limping smith. The white arm'd Goddesse, sooty son. Slow pac't God.

Vulgar.

The many headed beast. The unconceiving crue. The shallow headed, weak brain'd, multitude. Lay-understandings. Lowest dreggs of men. Uncertain tide of people. Unlearned throng. Illiterate croud. The giddy headed swarme. Humorous tumults. Frantick company. Which like so many empty pitchers may By the lugg'd ears be carried any way.