Rockes improved comprising certaine poeticall meditations extracted from the contemplation of the nature and quality of rockes, a barren and harsh soyle, yet a fruitfull and delightfull subject of meditation / by VVilliam Prynne ...
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Rockes improved comprising certaine poeticall meditations extracted from the contemplation of the nature and quality of rockes, a barren and harsh soyle, yet a fruitfull and delightfull subject of meditation / by VVilliam Prynne ...
Author
Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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London :: Printed by T. Cotes fo Michael Sparke ...,
1641.
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Meditations.
Rocks -- Poetry.
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"Rockes improved comprising certaine poeticall meditations extracted from the contemplation of the nature and quality of rockes, a barren and harsh soyle, yet a fruitfull and delightfull subject of meditation / by VVilliam Prynne ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70872.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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THE PROEME.
WHen from the lofty Castle I espieThe ragged Rocks, which round about it lye;My Working thoughts begin from thence to raiseSome aMeditations, to their Makers Praise,And mine own Profit: which my heart may warm,Yea mount to Heaven, and vaine fancies charm.