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A55357	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.	Poole, Josua, fl. 1632-1646.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2814; ESTC R1537	330,677	678

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 Alphabetically digested By JOSUA POOLE M. A. Clare Hall Camb. Together with A short Institution to English Poesie by way of PREFACE London Printed for Tho. Johnson at the golden Key in St. Pauls Church-yard 1657. TO My Worthily Honoured FRIEND Mr. FRANCIS ATKINSON I Shall not need to derive any confidence from the long acquaintance and friendship hath passed between us to presse you to the Patronage of this work when there are so many other Considerations that in a manner force it on you as having a certain right in it it is the account of many a years Stewardship the product of many a midnight thought during my relation to you and those young Gentlemen committed by you to my charge and oversight in a word it had the first and last hand put to it that is ows both its originall and perfection to your house at HADLEY There are indeed abroad in the world many books conducing to the improvement of youth in good Letters whereof it may be said of some they are superfluous of others they are burthensome and by multiplicity of instruction distract the Learner And this proceeds partly from an itch of reputation which even those of that laborious nay by many sleighted profession are not free from partly from the difficulties that attend the education of youth and partly from that generall humour in most men of discovering their invention in furnishing the world with something that is new or their wit in reforming and advancing what had been done by others But for this of mine you are not ignorant of the difficulty of the attempt what a strange multitude of Authors I have been forced as it were to anatomise and that I may say without any great losse of Modesty that there never came yet abroad so methodicall an Institution of ENGLISH POESIE For you who look on education through other prospective glasses than those of necessity or advantage know that it requires a person of generous inclinations that as an exrprest Architect layes the solid foundations of humane life and undertakes a businesse that hath the greatest influence on Policy Morality and Religion This once granted no pains no care no vigilancy can be too great that is spent upon the cultivation of these noble plants were there only this inducement that we should transmit them such to posterity as that they may in them perceive our care and tendernesse Upon these grounds did I enter into the present relation to you which being as I said a stewardship it is but just I should bring something to testifie my faithfulnesse You know how beneficial this work hath been where it was brought forth and exercised and I leave it to you either to communicate it or conceale it If ever it come abroad into the world I desire it may be under the conduct of your name that for your particular it may be satisfied how much you have contributed to the the Commonwealth of Learning and for mine be convinced how conscientious I have been in the discharge of my duty what great respects I have for you and how passionately desirous I am to expresse my self Sir Your most affectionate Friend and faithful Servant Josua Poole To the hopeful young Gentlemen his Schollers in that private School at Hadley Kept in the house of Mr. Francis Atkinson SWeet impes of early hopes whose smiling brow Beckens the cincture of the laureate bough Whose lips seem made to tast no other spring Than that by which the The spian virgins sing Whose sprightly face and active eyes descry The Muses in a rising majesty You that without th'edition of a book Can make men read a Poet in your look Whose downy plumes with happy augurie Presage betimes what the fledge soul will be For you Ingenious spirits thus I trie To find a milkie way to Poesie That babes as they the coral nipples lugge May find an Hippocrene within the dugge And the first milk that they shall feed upon May be the sacred dew of Helicon And when at first their steps the earth shall greete At once may find their own and verses feete After as they grow up Pegasus may Be the first hobby-horse with which they play And when to higher sports they come may put An Homers Iliads in their game some nut And whilst they take their pastime in the sun Together make their tops and verses run Nay to that height they shall their phancies raise That whilst they run at they shal win the Baies In all their sports they shall the Poets play And make the Birch prevented by the Bay For they shal need no Masters to rehearse Long tedious precepts of the lawes of verse In them so printed shall those lawes be seen As if they had the lawes of Nature been The only taske their Masters shall impose On them will be to learn to speak in prose In which they shall have if they chance t' offend As boys scan verses at their fingers ends Pleading like Ovid for to save their breech As if Prosodia went before In speech Or that they had into the world been brought As Lucan died with verses in their throat Their cradles of the verdant laurel been Or of those learned trees which once were seene After the Thracian Harper dance along Wedding their motions to his well-tim'd song And all that shal their sodain raptures hear That Poets are not made but born will swear The early blossoms which I see in you Makes me believe these my presages true For if you can so much already do What will they that may sooner come unto Parnassus mount If you so much can see On plainer ground what will they that shal be Advantag'd by that hill whose tops do rise In stately height to parly with the skies On then sweet souls that sacred verse may be No longer call'd the thred-bare mystery Let the world see what yet it scarce before Hath known there are good Poets yet not poore Whose inspirations and rich phancies be More than a Taverns frothy tympany That conjure not up wit with spirit of wine Nor make the bay supported by the vine Like those whose thirsty fancies ebbe and flow lust as their cups greater or lesser grow Phaebus and Bacchus that together link And never write but in or after drink As when great showers of rain fall from the skies In standing waters bubbles will arise And for my selfe though I did ne'r bestride The winged horse and through the welkin glide Vnto the forked hill nor saw the spring Where those sweet maids of Memory do sing Whilst their harmonious aires give easie birth Vnto the flowers and help the teeming earth Whilst shaggy Satyrs yeild their sences thrall To the sweet cadence of their madrigals And all the leavy standards of the wood Quitting the place

as may be long Parentheses which are a certain torture to the Reader forcing him to alter his tone till he come to the close of the Parenthesis and causing in the hearer a distraction and suspence till the sense be united Examples of this are so frequent we need not quote any Some late writers have endeavoured to avoid them even in Prose and the attempt ought to be cherished and seconded nor indeed is it very difficult To this head may be added a certain licentiousnesse which some English Poets have in imitation of the Greek and Latine presumed on to dismember and disjoyn things that should naturally march together placing some words at such a distance one from another as will not stand with the English Idiome Nay sometimes they fall down into flat prose a kind of Licentia poetica by no means allowable in English such is that of these verses But now that she is wearied with the toil Of balling and that all her spirits boil With scortching flames of the blind Archers fire Which kindleth no lesse vehement desire In her inamorato's hence she goes Having farewel'd the company at whose Earnest entreaty she was pleas'd to come Into afair and well adjusted room c. A third caution i● to avoid as much as may be frequent Apostrophe's because of harshnesse and disturbance consequent thereto such we have in this verse The husband is the head as soon's h' unlocks Where the words as and he are apostrophated which cannot be well admitted It is ordinary with the same Author to apostrophate us his by to be very c. very harshly and not without violence to the ear A fourth is to avoid feminine rimes such as charity and parity double and trouble Dunstable and Constable c. which in a verse of ten syllables or Heroick speaks a certain flatnesse derogatory from the Majesty thereof and if any where they may be allowed it is in Ditties and Sonnets and there hardly Poesie being now arrived to such purity and perfection With this we forbid the use of polysyllables such as are proper to prose and come not into verse without a certain violence such as representation skilfulness remediles reciprocally convertible sprightfully as also the frequent use of words that have the accent on the fourth sillable from the termination as territory disputable protonotary the like A fifth may be an exact observation of the rime as that wherein all the symphony and musick of a verse consists In this Sir Thomas Urquhart a man of an extraordinary fancy may be said to be negligent or indeed it is the fault of his Countrey which being obliged to France for many things derive thence a liberty not admittable in English Poesie Such is that of terminating with the same letters as conceive and receive sun and son resent and consent c. frequent in French Poetry or such as not allowed Poesie would be lost among them As also that of making two words that have but any affinity in sound to serve for rhime as effects and takes expression and copulation lean and den late and set frequent in Scotch Poets as it were in imitation of the French among whom it is tolerable Lastly for the Epithets which well placed and significant are no small ornament in a Poeme These we would have to adde something to the signification of the Substantive that it may not be thought they onely fill up the line Thus to say briny sea is no more than to say the sea the woody grove is no more than a grove nor were it amisse to avoid a sort of harsh compound words much affected by some such as Thunder-thumping Jove tempest-raising winds which reading and experience will soon discover to be the issues of hollow brains filled with nought but wind Thus having run through this short Anatomy of Poesie all now remains to do is in few words to give some little account of the Author and the design and scope of the present work for the Author he had sometime the charge and management of a private School at Hadley near Barnet in the County of Middlesex kept in the house of a worthy Gentleman one Mr. Francis Atkinson who out of a design truly generous and publick endevouring to prevent the inconveniences of irregulated youth set up a School or Academy for the education of a select number of Gentlemens sons of good quality There it seems as he confesseth in his Epistle to the said Mr. Atkinson he writ this elaborate piece But this is not his first appearance in the world for in the year 1655. came forth a book of his called the ENGLISH ACCIDENCE very usefull for such as it was intended for as teaching a way to make him that can but indifferently read English to turn any sentence into pure and elegant Latine Printed for R. Lownds at the white Lion in Pauls Churchyard For the Work he hath divided it into three parts The first treats of all rhimes imaginable in English as the base and foundation of Poesie according to their severall terminations The second furnishes the diligent Lover of the Muses with excellent choice and variety of apposite Epithets somewhat in imitation of Textors in the Latine The third is an ample treasury of phrases and elegant expressions gathered out of the best esteemed English Authors that have writ in the severall kinds of Poesie not unlike that of Thesaurus Poeticus in Latine And all this is performed by such an excellent method and a certain alphabetical disposition for the greater ease and convenience of those that shall be desirous to advance themselves thereby that it may be confidently said the design is absolutely new there having not any thing of this kind appeared upon the English stage before So that there seems nothing requisite to compleat the great structure of this ENGLISH PARNASSUS or Poeticall Institution but a Rhetoricall Treatise such as m●y acquaint and furnish the industrious student with these advantages and imbellishments that advance as well Prose as Poetry to the highest pitch And such a Treatise there is already in the Printers hands to be suddenly put into the Presse intituled ENGLISH RHETORICH and that drawn by the same hand and polished by the same indefatigable industry as this PARNASSUS And of that RHETORICH there is the like presumption that proceeding from the same Author th●● is being such as pruned off whatever is burd●●●ome and unnecessary and comprehending all that is beneficiall and conducing to the improvement o● such as shall desire it it will meet with a reward suitable to an undertaking of such concernment to all learning a generall encouragement acceptation and applause I. D. The ALPHABET OF MONOSYLABLES AB BAbe Blabbe Crabbe Drabbe Mab Scabbe Slabbe Stabbe ACE or AIES Base Bayes Bl●ze Brace Case Chace Face Daies Fraies Glaze Gaze Graze Grace Jayes Keyes Lace Maze Place Plaies Race Raies Praies Praise R●ze Raise Sayes Slaies Spraies Staies Space Straies Swayes Trayes Trace Mace Waies

Whose spiri●'s onely active in his he●l One that hath indented with the grave to bring all his limbs thither A C●rpet knight That date do nought but fear Possessed with an ignomin●ous fear That manhood only by their beard bewray Alivel●sse damp beleaguers every joynt as oft he swounds As ere he views his sword or thinks on wounds That swings his sword about his head and cuts The empty aire which h●sseth him in scorne Ready to run away from himselfe like the Satyr that ran away a●● the noyse of the noyse of the horne which he himself blew Looks as if his eyes would run into his soul and his soul out of his body upon the least sent of danger Cast●ng such unlikely dangers as all the planets together could ●●arce conspire Clinias Damaetas ●hersites A valiant voice that is resolved to have his sword never curst by any widow H●s blcod not daring to be in so dangerous a place went out of his face and hid it selfe more inwardly and his very words as if affraid of blowes came slowly from him Affraid of his own sword he wears and affrighted wi●h the clashing of his own armour VVhose feet is his best defence and his tongue his best weapon A dish of skimm'd milke Tost and butter That fear the report of a cal●ver VVorse than a st●uck foole or hurt wild-duck The fanning of his enemies plume would nod him in●o despaire Cream-fac'd fellow lilly-liverd whey-face linn●n che●kes pigeonliverd That wears all his daggers in his mouth And will see his sister sooner naked than a sword His blood runs thick as if it would blot a sword Prometheus was a sleepe while his heart was making and forgot to put fire in it If once his eye be struck with terrour all the costick phisick in the world cannot stay him Wonderful exceptious and cholerick where he sees men are lo●● to give him an occasion and you cannot pacifie him better than by quarrelling with him Whom when he is most hot you may easily threaten into a very honest quiet man The sight of a sword wounds him more sensible than the stroke every man is his master that dare beat him and every man dares that knowes him He is a Christian merely for fear of hell fire and if any religion could fright him more he would be of that Such as would conquer victory it self if it stood in their way as they fly Loving to shew a nature steep'd in the gall of passion display the ignoble tyranny of prevailing discords being valiant against no resistance and making no resistance when they meet true valour That would sooner creep into a scabbard than draw a sword and endure a bullet than shoot of a musket Coy A piece of pettish froward wanton anger Such as possest Narcissus P●ssest with savage chastity Coy as the plant Pud●setan That shrinks at the approach of man Rustick chastity Discourteous modesty That as long as they are chast think they may be discourteous And lawfully scratch men if they do not kisse them Consume their own Idolater Of such a goddesse no time gives record That burnes the temple where she is ador'd Crafty The subtile fox Hyoena Crocodile and all beasts of craft Have been distil'd to make one nature up Volpone Cranes That watchful fowl the Pygmies enemy Direct their flight on high And cut their way they in a trigon ●ly Which pointed figure may with ease divide Opposing blasts through which they swiftly glide Which with loud clangors fill the ●kie When they from cold and stormy winter fly Toth ' Ocean and that aires more temperate breath Inflicting on the Pygmies wounds and death The Thracian fowle which with their loud alarme● Make little Pigmies souldiers run to armes Strimon●an birds in Pygmies death rejoyce And tear the aire before them with their voice Which while they sleepe make one keepe sen●inel P●lamedes ●utors Which by their flying taught Him letters and his warlick discipline Credulous A man of easie confidence of rash belief That hath the only disadvantage of an honest heart To Cry out v. Noyse To rive ●ear the aire with cries To fill the bosome of the shricking aire With loud complaints Crime v. Wicked Guilty of a blacker crime Than ere in the large volume writ by time The sad historian reads acting black mischief A fault Not to be purged with brimstone fire and salt A sin no praiers or tears Can ere wash off That blurs the grace and blush of modesty Critick That beholds nothing but with a mind of mislike Writing with oyle and fire The least child their pen is delivered of comes into the world with all its teeth The Muses Cerberus Archilochus himself was not more bitter Churlish reteiner to the Muses One that hath spell'd over a great many of books and all his observation is the Orthography The surgean of old authou●s healing the wounds of dust and ignorance He is a troublesome vexer of the dead which after so long sparing must rise up to the judgment of his castigation He is one that makes all books sell dearer whilst he swells them into folios by his comments Crocodile Niles fell rover Niles poisony Pi●ate Niles greedy beast That kills the man then bath●s him in his tears That beast which opposite to natures law In other creatures mooves the upper jaw Crowne Cornet chaplet garland diadem incirclet wreath fillet circlet ringe ●inglet cincture anadem impalement Cruell Like Ounces Tygers or the Panthers whelps Whose healths are morning draughts in blood As Lycaon when he chang'd his shape VV●●h Selmus turned into an Adaman● The swallowing Syrts Charybdis chaft with w●nd Or some fell Tyger of th' Armenian kind Did him beget his cruel brest Rough flint hard steele or adamant invest As if he had drunk of the Ciconian stream That fre●zeth all the entrailes into stone He on the cruel Caucasus hard mounts VVas bred or suckt from Tygers milky ●ounts Of some Tygers b●ood Bred in the wast of fr●st-bit Calydon An heart hewn from a Parian stone Mortar made of blood and clay By rocks engendered ●ib'd with steel Like Tygers fel● VVh●m their fierce dams with slaughterd cattels blood VVere wont to nourish in th' Hircanian wood Most delighted when They bath and paddle in the blood of men To whose heart nature hath set a lock to shut out pitie Cataline Marius Ner● M●zentius Q●●affers of humane blood Savage rigour More cruel than a Turke or Troglodite Than the Laestrigon The savages to S●ythian rockes confind VVho know no God nor vertue of the mind But only sence pursue who hunger tame VVith slaughtered lives they and their food the same Are not so cruel As Phalaris or fam'd Gemonides Hircanian Tygar Numidian Getulian Lion Anthropophagi The horse-blood-swell'd Sarmatian In whose heart a vein of matble growe Enough to make men waver in the faith And hold opinion with P●thago●as That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men whose cu●rish spirit Governd a wolfe who hang'd