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.

Doubt. Doubtful.

Even as a ship upon the raging sea Be ween two winds crosse tossed every way. Uncertain, knowes not in what course to set her: O my divided soul! how do I tremble. Like to the doubtful needle twixt two loadstones. One thought another doth controle, So great a discord wracks the wavering soul. Such thoughts had Biblis when she wooed her brother. Such Meleagers mother when she held The fa••al brand. With a battel in the fighting thoughts. As when a mighty Oake now almost fell'd, his fall

On each side th••eatens and waves to and ••ro•• The ague, palsie of the soul. The tumult of distracted minds. Plunged in doubtful passions: The tempest of the thoughts. A strange confusion in the troubled soul, Whose flying though••s are at no certain ••••and. The jarring passion of the struggling soul. Quandaring passion. The souls Labyrinth. T••de of the mind, Earthquake of the brest. The megrim of the soul. Euripus of the mind. Tost like a ship twixt two encountring tides.