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 17, 2024.

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TO The Right Worshipfull his highly Honoured good Friend, the Lady ELIZABETH BALFOVRE, Wife to Sr William Balfoure, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON.

MADAM, Your Noble Favours whiles that I Did in the Tower of London Prisner lye For sundry yeares; may now in Justice call For some expression of my Thanks, though small. Having no better meanes to testifie My gratitude, than this small Poesie, Devoted to your Service, Ʋse and Name; I crave your Kinde Acceptance of the same, And those thereto annexed; fruites of my Imprisonment; who shall both live and dye.

Your Obliged Friend
and Servant,
WILLIAM PRYNNE.

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