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Author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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.
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Print source: 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.
Prynne, William, 1600-1669., Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rockes improved., Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Christian sea-card., Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Christian paradise., Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Comfortable cordials.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, and are to be sold by Peter Inch of Chester, 1641.
Subject terms:
Jesus Christ -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91224.0001.001
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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.
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to the reader
Errata.
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.
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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TO The Worshipfull his highly Honoured Friend Mrs 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.
THE PROLOGUE.
Meditations of the first Kinde.
Meditations of the second Sort.
Meditations of the third Ranke.
Meditations of the fourth Classe.
Meditations of the fifth Sort.
Meditations of the sixth Sort.
The Epilogue.
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TO The Worshipfull his ever Ho∣noured Kinde Friends, Mrs 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.
THE PREFACE.
A briefe Character of a Garden.
Meditations of the first Kinde.
Meditations of the second Ranke.
Meditations of the third Classe.
Meditations of the fourth Classe.
Meditations of the fifth Sort.
Meditations of the sixth Ranke.
The Epilogue.
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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.
THE SOVLES COM∣PLAINT AGAINST THE BODIES ENCROACH∣MENTS ON HER: And the Generall Neglect She findes with most.
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TO THE RIGHT VVOR∣Shipfull his very Noble and highly Honoured good Friend, SIR WILLIAM BALFORE Knight, Lievtenant of the Tower of LONDON.
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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On his Exile into Iersy Isle.
20. Deus Turris etiam in Turre:
God is a Tower in the Tower.
21. Deus Turris.
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Sentences of Scriptures there likewise written.
PSAL. 69. 33.
PSAL. 146. 7, 8.
PHIL. 4. 11, 12, 13.
PSAL. 34. 17. 19. 22.
PSAL. 37. 23, 24, 37, 38, 39, 40.
PSAL. 71. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
MICAH: 7, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
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.
S. L. Stigmata Laudis.
On his returne from Exile.
ISAY. 51. 11. 14. c. 41. 5, 6.
ERRATA.
to the reader
Errata.