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.

Witch.

Sycorax, Canidia, Circe, Medea, Perimede S••mmetha, Meroe, Dypsas, Sagana, Vei••,, Folia, Maegae••a, Which cursed dew from the unwholsome fenne, Brush off with ravens feathers. Pythonissa, Erict••••. Company for toads, Beetles and Bats.

That can controll the moone, cause flowes and ebbs, Whose exercise Is secret murther, sullen tragedies; Her drink the blood of babes, her dainty feast, Mens marrow, brains, guts, livers late deceast. The mumbling Beldame muttering her charmes. On the corner of the moone, Hangs a vaporous drop profound, Ile catch it ere it come to ground, Which distill'd by Magick slights, Shall raise artificial sprights▪ Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd, Twice and once the hedge pigge whin'd, Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time. Round about the cauldron goe, In the poisoned intralls throw. Toad that under the cold stone, Daies and nights hast thirty one. Sweltered venome sleeping got, Boyle thou first ith' charmed pot. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boyle and bake. Eye of neutes, and toe of frogs, Wool of bats, and tongue of dogs. Adders forke, and blind wormes sting. Lizards leg, and howlets wing, For a charme of powerful trouble, Like a hell broth boyle and bubble. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolfe, Witches mummy, maw, and gulfe. Of the ravin'd salt sea sharke, Root of hemlock digg'd ith' dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew. Gall of goats, and slips of yeugh, Sliver'd in the moons eclypse, Nose of Turke, and Tartars lips. Finger of birth-strangled babe, Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make this gruel thick and slab. Adde therein a Tygers chauldron, For the ing••••dients of our cauldron.

Coole it with a baboones blood, Then our charme is firme, and good. By whom large streams back to their fountains flow. The stars drop blood, While the still moon with sanguine visage stood. By moone-light hearbs with brazen sickle crops, And poysonous weeds that bleed in sable drops. Whose unkembed head, Are with short vipers filleted, Commands from graves wild sigtrees torne, And Cypresse, which doth beers adorne. Eggs steep'd in bloud of toads, to bring, With feathers of the Scritch owles wing. Hearbs of Iolcos baneful field, And poysons Thessaly doth yeild. Bones snatcht from jawes of hungry bitch, To burne with flames of stinking pitch. On which the witch doth water fling, Fetcht from Avernus loathsome spring. Ingredients of witchcraft. Peeces of dead carkases snatcht from ravenous beasts. VVolves haire. Mad dogges foame. Adders care. Serpents slough. Spurging of a dead mans eyes. Mandrake roote▪ Flesh, bones, and sculls from charnel houses. Ropes, chains, raggs, bones, haire, sinews, Marrow of men-gibetted, blood and fat of slain infants. Eggs and black feathers of a screech owle. blood and back bone of a frogge.

Aconite, hemlock, henbane, adders tongue, nigh••-shade, Moon-wort, libbards bane, poppy, cypresse, w••ld fig∣trees growing on tombes, juyce of the la••ch tree, or A∣garicum. Basiliskes blood, vipers skin, the toad-eyes of the owle, bats wings, young colts forehead.

Harpier, Padock, Martin, familiar spirits.

Pluto, Hecate, Proserpina, Chaos, Diana, Eumenides, and all the infernal powers, the deiri••s invocated by witches.

V. Dubartas. Trophies, Witch of Endor. Ovids Metam. lib. 7. Amorum 1. Eleg. 5. Horace. Epod. 5, Virgil Eclog▪ 8. Theocritus Pharmaceutria. Skakespears Macheth.

Ben. Johnsons mask out of the house of Fame. Lucan. Lib. 6▪