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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Zodiack.
Heavens painted girdle, scarfe.
The heavens bright shining baudrick.
That way the restlesse sun doth weare,
Passing his course to finish up the year,
The shining belt, about the breast of heaven.
On the right shoulder like a flaming jewel.
His shell with nine rich topazes, adorn'd.
Lord of the Tropick, sits the scalding crab;
Who when the sun gallops in full careere,
His anual race, his ghastly clawes uprears,
Frights at the confines of the torrid zone.
The fiery teame, and proudly stops his course,
Making a solstice, till the fierce steeds learn
His backward paces, and so retrograde,
Post downward to th' opposed Capticorne.
Heavens bright Bandaleere.
The oblique scarfe that knits the yeare.
Sols twelve Innes.