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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Envie.
The barking S••ylla. Envy tears
The snakie fleece which on her hed she wears.
That black inhabitant of hell,
Self eating el••e,
Through others leannesse fatting up her selfe,
Swol••'n like a ••oad, betwixt her bleeding jawes,
He•• hissing serpents wrigling tailes she chawes.
Sicilian tyrants yet could never find
A greater torment. The fury lapping vipers blood,
And feeding on their flesh, her poysonous food,
Her body more than meager, pale her hew,
Her ••eeth all rusty, eyes that look askew,
Her brest wi••st gall, her tongue with poyson swell'd,
She only laught when she sad sigh••s beheld,
He•• ever waking cares exile soft sleep,
She cannot look on good success but weepe,
Repining pines, and wounding others bleeds,
She on her selfe revengeth her misdeeds.
That da••k shadow ever waiting on shining vertue.
That banquets in anothers miseries.