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 Isl 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.

All titles

• 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 Isl 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.
• Divine and profitable meditations Rockes improved Comfortable cordials Soules complaint Christian paradise Christian sea-card

People / Organizations

• Tho. Cotes ("printed by")
• Michael Sparke ("printed for")
• William Prynne (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Senior, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene Arbor, 1641.

Publication year

1641-1641

ESTC No.

R11087

Grub Street ID

59403

Description

[16], 56, 59-184; [4], 16 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 4⁰

Note

In verse.

One of four possible imprint variants of this text.

With marginal notes.

Order and number of preliminary leaves vary. Ideal copies include a 4-line verse (printed in 7 lines) which accompanies a portrait of the author. These two leaves may either precede or follow title page. There are two verse dedications, "To the Christian reader", which fills both sides of a leaf, and "To the Right Worshipfull his ever honoured worthy friend ..." on a leaf signed [par.]3, the verso of which is blank. These two dedication leaves are frequently interchanged.

Uncontrolled note

L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1: title page (Harl. 5921[272]) and leaf [par.]3 (Harl. 5921[273]) only