ZEAL

Zeal is the pious Madness of the Mind.

Dryd. Tyr. Love.

And Confidence in Sin, when mix'd mith Zeal, Seems Innocence, and looks to most as well.

Zeal's a dreadful Termagant,

That teaches Saints to tear and rant;
And Independants to profefs
The Doctrine of Dependances:
Turns meek and fneaking fecret Ones
To Raw-heads fierce, and Bloody bones :
And not content with endless Quarrels
Against the Wicked and their Morals,
The Ghibilins for want of Guelfs,
Divert their Rage upon themselves.
ZONES.

Five Girdles bind the Skies: The torrid Zone
Glows with the paffing and re-paffing Sun.
Far on the Right and Left, th'Extreams of Heav'n
To Frofts and Snows and bitter Blafts are giv'n.
Betwixt the midft and thefe the Gods affign'd
Two habitable Seats for Human-kind':
And cross their Limits cut a floping Way,
Which the twelve Signs in beauteous Order fway:
Two Poles turn round the Globe: One feen to rife
O'er Scythian Hills, and one in Lybian Skies.
The firft fublime in Heav'n: The laft is whirl'd
Below the Regions of the nether World.
Around our Pole the fpiry Dragon glides,
And, like a wand'ring Stream, the Bears divides:
The lefs and greater, who by Fate's Decree
Abhor to dive beneath the Southern Sea.
There, as they fay, perpetual Night is found,
In Silence brooding on th'unhappy Ground:
Or when Aurora leaves our Northern Sphere,
She lights the downward Heav'n, and rifes there.
And when on us fhe breaths the living Light,
Red Vefper kindles there the Tapers of the Night.
And as five Zones th'Ethereal Regions bind,
Five correfpondent are to Earth affign'd.
The Sun, with Rays dire&ly darting down,
Fires all beneath, and fries the middle Zone.
The two beneath the diftant Poles complain,
Of endless Winter, and perpetual Rain.
Betwixt th'Extreams two happier Climates hold,
The Temper that partakes of Hot and Cold.

FIN
NI S.

Cree. Juv.

Hud.

Dryd. Virg.

Dryd. Ovidi

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DICTIONARY

OF

RHYMES.

Quelque fujet qu' on traite, ou plaisant ou fublime,
Que toujours le bon fens s'accorde avec la Rime;
L'un l'autre vainement ils femblent fe hair,
La Rime eft un esclave, & ne doit qu'obeir.
Lors qu' a la bien chercher d'abord on s'evertue,
L'efprit a la trouver aifement s'habitue;
Au joug de la Raifon fans peine elle flechit,
Et, loin de la gener, la fert & l'enrichit.
Mais lors qu'on la neglige, elle devient rebelle,
Et pour la ratraper, le fens court apres elle.

BOILEAU.

T

The PREFACE.

THIS Dictionary contains a Collection of fuch Words only, as both for their Senfe and Sound are judg'd moft proper for the Rhymes of Heroick Poetry. For which Reafon are omitted.

I. All Burlesque Words, and fuch whofe Signification can be employed only in Subjects of Drollery.

II. All uncommon Words, and that are of a generally unknown Signification; as the Names of Distempers that are unufual; most of the Terms of Arts and Sciences; all proper Names both of Perfons and Places; together with all Pedantick hard Words, whofe Sound is generally as harsh and unpleafing as their Senfe is dark and obfcure.

III. All Bafe, Low Words: By which I mean fuch as are never met with but in the Mouth of the Vulgar, and never us'd, either in Converfation or Writing, by the better and more polite Sort of People. The French call them Des Mots Bas, but our Language fcarce allows us a Term to diftinguith them. And if any fuch are inferted, the Reason is, because they are us'd in a Figurative, as well as in their proper Signification: Thus Starch properly fignifies only that which Landreffes ufe, to ftiffen Linnen: In which Senfe, it can hardly find Place in an Heroick Poem; but in its Figurative it may : For 'tis us'd to exprefs an Action done with Affectation, and we fay a Starch'd, for a formal, ftiff, affected Perfon. Therefore I have not omitted it, nor any of the like Nature.

IV. All Obfolete, Spurious, and Mifcompounded Words, which are unworthy the Dignity of Style requir'd in an He roick Poem; Cujus Dictio debet effe perfecta, & abfoluta.

V. All the Words that ought not to end a Verfe; as the Particles An, And, As,Of, The, &c. together with all the Words of more than three Syllables that have their Accent upon the fourth Syllable from the laft; as Diffoluteness, Niggardlinefs, Vindicated, and the like, whofe Accent being fo far removed from their final Syllable, they ought never to end a Verfe in any Sort of Poetry whatsoever.

VI. The Terminations that have not more than one Word that can be employed to end a Verfe in Heroick Poetry. Thus because there are no Words that rhyme to Badge but Fadge and Cadge; the first of which is a Low Word, and the last very uncommon, being a Term in Falconry, and known but to a few, the Termination ADGE is intirely omitted.

VII. All the Words that end in Mute E, preceded by the

Liquid L and another Confonant; as thofe in BLE, CLE, DLE, For, befides that most of them are double Rhymes, all which, as fhall be faid hereafter, are excluded this Dictionary, the Sound of their laft Syllable is fo very weak and languishing, that the Verfes that end in any of them can never be graceful in the Delivery, nor pleafing to the Ear.

VIII. Almost all the Words that are compounded with any of the Particles, Out, Re or Un; for they may not only be easily form'd from their Simples, which are to be found under their refpective Terminations, but are fo very numerous in our Language, that to have inferted them, would have increas'd this Dictionary to a far greater Bulk than the Volume would permit: For this laft Reason, and for that they are feldom imploy'd at the End of Verses, most of the Polyfyllables in AL, ANCE, ANT, ATE, ENCE, ENT, ESS, OUS, and Y preceded by a Confonant, which are the Terminations with which our Language moft abounds, have found no Place here. As have not likewife, because they are all double Rhymes, any of the Words in ION, or of the Polyfyllables in ING, of both which there is an infinite Number. This Dictionary would likewife have been fwell'd to a much larger Volume, had the fame Word been inferted several times, according to its different Significations; As Beam, a great Piece of Timber in Building, Beam of a Coach or Waggon; Beam of a Stag; Beam of a Ballance; Beam or Ray of Light, &c. But fearing to be too prolix in a Work of this Nature, I have not done it. However, the Words, which, tho' written alike, differ both in Senfe and Sound, are inferted severally, according to their various Pronuntiations. Thus Bow is plac'd twice under the Termination OW: Firft among the Words whofe W is filent, as Crow, Grow, &c. And then among those whofe W is founded; as Com, Vow, &c. Among the first 'tis a Noun, and fignifies the Weapon fo call'd; and feveral other things. Among the last, a Verb, to Bow or Bend.

IX. All the Terminations that contain only Derivative Words. Thus because there are no Words that end in AILD, but the Participles of the Verbs in AIL, the Termination AILD is omitted; it being eafy to find all the Words of thofe Rhymes by looking for the Termination of their Primitives: For Example, to find the Rhymes to Prevail'd, confider it to be the Participle of the Verb Prevail, whofe Termination is AIL. See AIL, and you fhall find Hail, Sail, Bewail, and all the other Verbs of that Rhyme, whofe Participles are the only Words that rhyme to Prevail'd.

X. Laftly, the Terminations ASM, ISM, and OSM; not only because they contain none but uncommon Words, deriv'd from the Greek, but also because they properly belong to the double Rhymes; all which, as well as most of the treble,

are

are, for the Reasons alledg'd in the Rules for making Verses, omitted in this Collection. Which, as I faid before, is compos'd of a felect Number of fuch ufual Words as are of the beft Senfe, and that for the Agreeableness of their Sound are moft proper to be employ'd in the Rhymes of Heroick Verse.

Thus having given a fhort Account of the Words omitted in this Dictionary; it will be neceffary to fay fomething of the Method and Difpofition of those that are contain'd in it. In looking for a Word, confider the five Vowels A,E,I,O,U; and begin at the Vowel that precedes the laft Confonant of the Word: For Example, to find Perfwade, and the Words that rhyme to it, D is the laft Confonant, A the Vowel that precedes it, look for ADE, and you will find Made, Fade, Invade, and all the other Words of that Rhyme.

In like manner, if a Word end in two or more Confonants, begin at the Vowel that immediately precedes the first of them: For Example, Land; N is the firft of the final Confonants, A the Vowel that precedes it, See AND, and you will find Band, Stand, Command, &c.

But if a Dipththong, that is to fay two or more Vowels together, precedes the laft Confonant or Confonants of a Word, begin at the firft of thofe two Vowels; Thus to find the Rhymes to Difdain, look not for IN, but for AIN, and you will find Brain, Chain, Gain, &c.

To find a Word that ends in a Dipththong, preceded by a Confonant; begin only at the firft Vowel of the Dipththong: For Example, to find the Rhymes to Subdue, look for UE, and you will find Clue, Due, Enfue, &c.

All the Words that end in a fingle Vowel, preceded by a Confonant, are found by looking for that Vowel only. Except always the Words that end in Mute E, which are conftantly found by the fame Method that has been already prefcrib'd for finding the Rhymes to Perfwade, whofe final E is filent, and ferves only to lengthen the Sound of the A in the laft Syllable.

Except alfo the Words in Y, which are plac'd under the Termination IE, not only because their Sound is exactly the fame, but also because they may be indifferently written either with a Y or IE, as Dy or Die, Ly or Lie, Defy or Defie, &c..

The Words that rhyme ftrictly one to another, tho' they differ in Orthagraphy, are plac'd under the fame Termination. Thus the Words in AIGN, AIN, ANE, EIGN, and EIN, are plac'd together, because their Terminations have exactly the fame Sound: But as there are more Words in AIN, than in any other of thofe Terminations, I have plac'd them all under AIN; and from their refpe&tive Terminations have referred thither.

The Verbs are only in the Infinitive, and the Nouns in the