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.

Fury. v. Anger. Rage. Furies.

Daughters to old night. The Nymphs of Nemesis. In snaky curls they twist their dreadfull hair, Whose tresses dangle down with hissing snakes, And crawling adders with their forked tongues. The sisters with their hissing hair, Who on the faces of the guilty stare, With dreadfull Torches—infernall Harpie••. Eumenedes With snaky curls, that on the guilty seise Black midnight imps. Erynnis had encompass'd all The Town, her snakie hairs and burning brand, Shaking us when she rul'd Agave's hand, O•• the self-main••'d Lycurgus. The sullen broods of evil spirits. Upon her horrid brows did serpents hisse. Her komb kemb'd poyson down. Whose scourges wound All guilty souls,

A sulphureous vapour from her eys possest the fair, And sweet complexion of the abused air With pestilence. The ghastly Sprites that haunt the gloomy night. Black Pluto's messengers, Posts. Executioners. Snake trest sisters with knotted whips of wire. Malignant Spirits periwig'd with Snakes, Hells hatefull hags. Murthering Ministers, that in their silent substances Wait on natures mischief. Unhallowed hags, fell Ministers of fate. The di••e Tartarean monsters hating light, Begot by dismal Erebus and night. The Jades That drag the tragick melancholly night, * 1.1 And with their drowsie, slow, and flagging wings, Clip dead mens bones, and from their misty jaws Breath forth contagious darknesse in the air. Megaera. Alecto, Tisiphone

Notes

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  V. Virgils Alecto. Aen. 7. V. Sands Ovids Met. l. 4. p. 141. Lucans Phemon, lib. 5.