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.

Hell.

Sad Averno's strand. The depths to heaven-oppos'd. Pluto's sad monarchy. The shady coast. Pluto's wide-door'd house. The damned dismal mansion. The darksome plashie lake of Acheron. The silent deeps, And horrid shades where sorrow never sleepes. Pluto's pale kingdome. Dungeon. Blind caves of Dis. The gloomy dwellings of the damned spirits. Where Demogorgon's in dull darknesse pent. Where hideous Chaos keepes. Pluto's grizly band. A land where death, confusion, endlesse night, And horrour reign, where darnesse is their light. The infern. I vault. The dolorous mansion. Where Styx the old grandame of the Gods doth lie. That dungeon where the damned souls are shut. The pooles of scalding oyle and sulphure. The burning wheele turned round in flames. In burning beds of steele the damned lie. Where S••syphus his restlesse torments rolls. Roasted in sulphure. And washt in deep vast gulphs of liquid fire. The black empire. The ugly baleful bower. The loathsome kingdom. P••uto's empty regiment. T••'accurst aboades, monsions. The gloomy empire of th'infernal king. The unamiable realm. The realms to day unknown,

The dreadful house of Austere Pluto. Where Tantalus doth ever dread The falling stone that hangs upon his head. There are those youthful sisters which in vain Powre water still into that fatal tun, Which is as empty as when they begun. There Centaures, there the hissing Hydra stands, Scylla, Briarius with his hundred hands, Fire-arm'd Chymera's, Harpies full of rape, Snaky hair'd Gorgons. Gerions triple shape. There all the furies, daughters to old night, Implacable, and hating all delight. Before the adamantine doors do sit, And there with combes, their snakie curles unknit. The dungeon of the damned this is nam'd, Here Tityus for attempted rape defam'd, Hath his vast body on nine acres spread, And on his heart a greedy vulture fed, Ixion turn'd upon a restlesse wheele, With giddy head pursues his flying heele. v. Stix, Cocitus, Phlegethon, Acheron, Ixion, Tityus, Belides, Tantalus, Geryon, Cerberus, Furies, Pluto, Proserpine.