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.

Fame. v. Report.

That fluttering ill That thrives by flight, and as it goes growes still, The tatling snow-bal. Old times recorder. Sorrowes hasty barbinger. The drunken bastard of the multitude. The long tongu'd gossip. Times treasurer. True honours eagle-winged herald. That sounds the silver trumpet. Clad in a robe of gold, Whose train old time obsequiously doth bear, Wherein in rich embroydery is enroll'd The acts of all the worthies ever were. On her faire breast she two broad tablets wears Of Chrystal th'one, the other ebony, Where are engraven all the names of yore, In the large tombe of lasting memory. Or the black book of end••esse obloquie. Her palace placed betwixt earth and skies, The windowes all composed are of eyes. The walls are strongly edified of ears, And underfoot floord all about with drums; The rafters trumpets admirable chear. The cranies tongues. The doores unlock with every little breath That on the sun beams gloriously to ride. The registers, the worlds eternal houres. The light-foot, feather-tongued dame. She that enquireth into all the world, And hath about her vaulted palace hurld All rumours and reports or true or vain, What utmost lands, or deepest seas contein. Her house is full of Eccho made, Where never dies the sound, And as her browes the clouds invade, Her feet do touch the ground.