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.

Hands.

Natures hand-maids. The bodies victuallers. A wealthy palme VVhich holds the sweating of the Eastern balme. VVhence Jove might sip out nectar. Fingers the darts of love, Which with a touch might make a tyger me••k, So soft, so feeling delicate and sleek, As Nature wore the lillies for a glove. As might beget life, where was never none, And put a spirit into flinty stone.

Where whitenesse doth for ever sit, Nature her self enameld'd it, Where with a strange compact dothly, Warme snow, moist pearl, soft ivory. There fall those saphire-coloured brooks, Which conduit like, with curious crooks, Sweet Ilands make in that sweet land; As for the fingers of that hand, The bloody shafts of Cupids war, With Amethists they headed are, Which without stroke subdue. Which with their whitenesse make one desire to touch them, and with their softnesse rebound a desire to look on them. In whose comparison all whites are inke, Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure The cygnets downe is harsh, and spirit of sence, Hard as the plough-mans hand.