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.

Cheeks.

Two banks of fairest flowers Enricht with sweetnesse from the twilight showre•• VVhereon those jars which were so often bred, Composed are betw••xt the white and red.

Those plots where half-ros'd lillies lie, Not one by art but natures industry. Each Indie in each cheek—where met Vermillion with a silver tincture set, Cheeks lightly staind with red, Like spotted marble newly polished, which enclose The smiling ••ulip, and carnation rose Beauty, times sterne rage to shun, In her cheeks lillies hid her fom the sun, When she meant to triumph in her May, Made that her E••st, and there she broke her day, Cheeks in which two pits do lie, To bury those slain by her eye. Cheeks with kindly clarret spread Aurora like new out of bed. Either cheek discloses, Mingled bathes of milk and ••oses. Or like the fresh Queen apples side, Blushing at sight of Phaebus pride, Blushing lillies, where scarlet were a blot, Aurora blusht at such a sight unknown Seeing those cheeks were redder than her own. Transplanted Paradise. Beauties tempe. * 1.1 Have you seen carnation grow Fresh blushing through new flakes of snow, Have you seen with more delight A red rose growing through a white, Have you seen the pretty gleam That the strawberry leaves in creame, Such was the tincture of her cheekes.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Elysium.