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.

The Grave.

Tomb, Urn, shrine, monument, shrowd, vault, charnel, Last home. The cold bed. The common Inne. The harder Lodging of mortality, deep Goal of Death The cha••itable honou••. The everlasting bed, Which makes no changing of the Sheets. Earths dark bosome. Deaths cold embers. Deaths melancholy dungeon. Caves of death. The cabinet where is laid the pawn for the Souls re-turn. The bed of clay. The wormie bed. Deaths publick tiring house, where all men must, Measure their cold proportion in the dust, That locketh up our scattered dust, That she must audit upon trust, That quiet closet of content. The childs portion, our common mother bequeaths her children. Dusty confinement of the body. That dusty bed. Where unfelt worms, are all the fleas are bred.

••ithin whose dusty Territories plowmen are full. Compeers to K••ngs, where the spade may challenge precedence ••f the Scepter, and where the mitre may not contest with the ••••••tock. There where the weary from their labours rest. Nor pisoners there inforced by torments cry, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fearlesse by their old tormentors lie. ••he mean and great on equall basis stand, No servants there obey, nor Lords command, Where all in silence mourn, From whose dark shores no travellers return, A Land where death, confusion, endlesse night, And horrour reign, where darknesse is their light.