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.
- Title
- 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.
- Publication
- London :: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to be sold by Peter Inch of Chester,
- 1641.
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- Subject terms
- 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 May 18, 2024.
Contents
- epigraph
- frontispiece
- title page
- TO The Right Worshipfull his ever Honoured worthy Friend, Sir PHILIP CARTERET Knight, Lieutenant Governour and Bayliffe of the Isle of Jersy.
- TO THE CHRISTIAN READER,
- A POETICALL DESCRIP∣tion of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Iersy, interlaced, with some briefe Meditations from it's rockie, steepe, and lofty Situation.
- title page
- to the reader
- Errata.
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ROCKES
IMPROVED.
Comprising certaine Poeticall
Meditations, extracted from the con∣templation
of the Nature and Qualities of
Rockes; a Barren and Harsh Soyle, yet a
Fruitfull and Delightfull Subject of
Meditation.
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THE PROEME.
- Meditations of the first Ranke, Pa∣rallelling Christ and Rockes to∣gether.
- Meditations of the second Kinde, comparing Rockes and Sinnes to∣gether.
- Meditations of the third Sort, sui∣ting Rockes, and Gods Elect to∣gether.
- Meditations of the fourth Classe, sampling Rockes, and Rockie Hearts, with ungodly Men, to∣gether.
- Miscellanie Meditations of the fifth Kinde.
- The Conclusion.
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THE PROEME.
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TO
The Worshipfull his highly
Honoured Friend M
rs Elizabeth Car∣teret, Daughter to Sir Philip Carteret, Knight, Lievtenant Governour and Bayliffe of the Isle of Jersy. - to the reader
- A CHRISTIAN SEA-CARD. Consisting of sundry Poeticall Meditations raised from the Contem∣plation of the Nature and Qua∣lities of the Sea.
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TO
The Worshipfull his ever Ho∣noured
Kinde Friends, M
rs Douse, and Mrs Margaret Carteret, Daughters to Sr Philip Carteret Knight, Lieutenant Governor and Bay∣liffe of the Isle of Jersy. - A CHRISITAN PARADISE. OR A Divine Posie, Composed of sundry Flowers of Meditation, gathered from the sweet and Heavenly Contemplation of the Nature, Fruites, and Qualities of Gardens.
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TO
The Right Worshipfull his
highly Honoured good Friend, the
Lady ELIZABETH BALFOVRE,
Wife to S
r William Balfoure, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower of LONDON. - THE SOVLES COM∣PLAINT AGAINST THE BODIES ENCROACH∣MENTS ON HER: And the Generall Neglect She findes with most.
- imprimatur
- title page
- TO THE RIGHT VVOR∣Shipfull his very Noble and highly Honoured good Friend, SIR WILLIAM BALFORE Knight, Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON.
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COMFORTABLE
CORDIALLS,
OR
Latine Verses and Sentences,
written by Mr. William Prynne on his
Chamber Walls in the Tower of London,
during his Imprisonment there; Since tran∣slated
into English by him.
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- 19.
- On his Exile into Iersy Isle.
- 20. Deus Turris etiam in Turre:
- God is a Tower in the Tower.
- 21. Deus Turris.
- part
- Sentences of Scriptures there likewise written.
- On his Suffrings on the Pillory.
- Verses made by W. PRYNNE, as he returned by Water to the Tower after his last sufferings, upon his Stigmatizing.
- ISAY. 51. 11. 14. c. 41. 5, 6.
- ERRATA.
- to the reader
- Errata.