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Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed.

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Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed.
Author
Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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London :: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to be sold by Peter Inch of Chester,
1641.
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Jesus Christ -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91224.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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A briefe Character of a Garden.
A Garden is an Earthly Paradise, No mortall Creatures, but Gods owne devise, (Thea 1.1 first who Planted Gardens, which began At the Creation; God then binding Man, (Theb 1.2 Lord of all his workes) to this sweete Trade To Keepe and Dresse the Garden he had made: This was Mans first imployment; so as He In this Respect a Gardner stil'd may be; The first and best of Trades; whichc 1.3 Adams tast Of the forbidden fruite hath much debast, And with it Gardens too, which thereby lost Much of their Pleasure, to our Paine and cost. Yet in this dolefull State of sinne, and vice; They still remaine Mans terrened 1.4 Paradise; Yeelding not onely Profit, but delight. Foode, Cates, Salves, Phisicke, Pleasures to the sight, And other Senses; solacing the Minde With sundry Objects which it there may finde, It, and the Body to refresh and cheare, When as they tired, vexed, grieved are.

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But this is nought to those Soule-ravishing, Sweete, heavenly Meditations which doe spring From Gardens, able to rap and inspire The coldest Muse, with a Coelestiall fire; Yea melt the flintiest Heart, and it advance Above the Spheares in a delightfull Trance? These make an Eden of each Garden-Plot, And here are fallen to my Muses Lot.

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