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.

To Envie. Envious.

Bearing devouring Ae••na in his brest. His own torment. Fu••y E••ynnis. Like to Aglaucos turnd to speckled stone. B••rning like Aetna with embowelled fire. Like Basilisks that dart an eye. Impoyson'd with the dreggs of cruel hate. That draw an envious breath. What more could poison if it had a tongue t'expresse. Whose tongue's a spunge of venome. That feels a busie swarming nest Of never dying dragons in their brest. The viper of the venemous soul. To look with narrow eyes. Malice lies lieger in his brest.

Whose eyes cannot look right on any happy man, nor ears bear the burthen of his praise, contrary to other plagues, he is plagued with anothers well being, making happinesse the ground of his unhappi∣nesse, and good newes the argument of his sorrow, whose favour none can win, but at the dear race of being miserable.

Such an one, as his enemy needs wish him no worse, than to wish his own happiness seen by him.

That when he sees anothers happiness, And views himself, wishes the organs of his ••ight were crackt, And that the engines of his grief would cast His eye-balls like two g••obes of wild fire forth, To melt the unproportioned frame of nature. That could eat his entrals, And sink his soul ••nto the earth with sorrow.

Of a l••an body and visage, as if his eager soul biting for anger at the ••ogge of his body, desired to fret a p••ss••ge through it.