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.

Earth-quake.

The ague of the earth. Earths. grumbling fit•• The center pants with sudden throwe••, The trembling earth, a sad distemper showes The feavourous earth did shake The aguish earth trembles in every vein, The great worlds ague, the ••eeming earth Is with a kind of Cholick pin••ht and vext By the imprisoning of unruly winds Within her womb, which for enlargement strives, Shakes the old beldame earth, and tumbles down Steeples and mosse-grown towres,

Earth imprison'd Aire, with sudden birth, Scartles the world, and shakes the shivering earth.