Swan-Embroydered?

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Stream in Poole's English Parnassus

Poole, Joshua. 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. London, 1657.

In addition to providing a very early rhyming dictionary (“INDE | Binde | Blinde | In-clin’d | De-clin’d | Din’d | Finde | Grinde | Be-hinde | Lin’d | Kind | Minde | Pin’d | Rinde | De-sign’d | Re-sign’d | Shin’d | En-shrin’d | Twin’d | Winde | Whin’d | Whrin’d”), Poole offered a set of "the choicest epithets" that might produce satisfying poetry: you might call Aaron "Sacred, mitred, holy, blessed, grave, priestly, pious"; an abbey can be "Rich, wealthy, cloysterd, monkish, religious, old, ancient. | Abbot. | Old, antient, religious, cloysterd, recluse, mitred, reverend, regular, grave, humble, devotious, retired, zealous, abtemious, monkish"; use "Obedient, aged, old, prudent, faithfull, blessed, wise, devout, pious, godly, religious, reverend, sage, grave, holy" with Abraham; and so on.

You might also need the “Formes of protesting. | By all the oathes sacred religion knowes. | By all oathes made in reverential fear | Of heaven, and her inhabitants. | By your self, that is all thats good.”

Here's a typical set of adjectives that collocate with stream, in case you're eager to write painfully clichéd seventeenth-century poetry:

Stream.

Winding, curled, purling, foaming, silver, christal, writhing, wriggling, snaky, sweeping, hurrying, silent, chiding, impetuous, resistlesse, enraged, flowing, fruitful, fishie, gorgling, running, gliding, slippery, soft, whispering, wandering, roaring, stragling, gushing, cleansing, drenching, whirling, rushing, glassie, pearly, silver-brested, rolling, swelling, wheeling, spreading, gently-sliding, glancing, ranging, tumbling, incensed, shower-enhanced, dancing, vaulting, borned, careering, azure, wavie, rustling, amorous, angry, boyling, bustling, surgie, murmuring, murtering, rumbling, frothy, bank-courting, uxorious, sliding, hasty, swift-pac’d, swan-embroydered.