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.

Coloured.

Streaked, stained, smeared, speckled, f••eckled, tinctured, varnishe, pyde, which nature dyde, In more eye-pleasing hewes, and richer grain, Then Iris bow attending Aprils rain Nor can the Peacock in his spo••ted train, So many pleasing colours shew again, As in the Rain-bowes many-colured hiew Here we see watchet deepned with a blew, There a dark tawny with a pu••ple mixt, Yellow, and flame, with streaks of green betwixt A bloody stream into a blushing run, And ends still with the colour, which begun, Drawing the deeper to a lighter stain Bringing the lightest, to the deep'st again, With such rare Art each mingleth with his fellow, The blew with watchet green, and red with yellow; Like to the changes which we dayly see About the Doves neck with varietie, Where none can say, although it strickt he tends Here one begins, and there the other ends.