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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Eccho.
Daughter of aire and tongue,
Which the last of dying speech retorts,
Whilest she with others language sports.
The babling guest of rocks and hills,
That blab that will not, cannot hold her tongue
Who never asks, but ever answers all.
Who lets not any her in vain to call
The babling gossip of the aire,
The vocal goddess of the woods,
Slides through the vale, and danceth ore the floods.
Loud Eccho's tear woods.
The Ape of Speech,
The image of a voice;
The gentle neigh-bourhood of Grove and Spring,
Unbosome all their Ecchoes.