Rocks Improved, Title page – Errata
ROCKES IMPROVED, COMPRISING CERTAINE POETICALL MEDITATIONS, Extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Quality of ROCKES; a barren and harſh Soyle; yet a Fruitfull, and Delightfull ſubject of Meditation. By VVILLIAM PRYNNE, late Exile, and cloſe Priſoner in Mount-Orgueil Caſtle in the Iſle of Ierſy.
Pſal. 18. 2. 31. 46. 2 Sam. 22. 2. 3. 32.
The Lord is my Rocke and my Fortreſſe, and my deliverer, my God, my ſtrength in whom I will truſt, my buckler, and the horne of my Salvation, and my high Towre my Saviour, thou ſaveſt mee from violence. Who is a Rocke ſave our God? The Lord liveth, and bleſſed be my Rocke, and let the God of my Salvation be exalted.
Pſal. 40. 1, 2, 3.
I waited patiently for the Lord, and hee inclined unto mee, and heard my cry: He brought mee alſo out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and ſet my feet upon a Rocke, and eſtabliſhed my goings, &c.
London, Printed by T. Cotes for Michael Spacke, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene A…bor 1641.
TO THE RIGHT WORſhipfull his moſt highly honoured, ſpeciall kind Friend, the truly vertuous, and religious Lady, Anne Carteret, wife to Sir Philip Carteret Knight: Lievetenant Governour, and Bayliſſe of the Iſle of Jerſy.
MAdame, Vouchſafe to owne and patronize
Theſe Meditations, which did firſt ariſe
Within thoſe walls, which your bright vertues grace,
And fitted were for that *Mount Orgueil.high rockie place
The Poem's like the Subject, barren, rude,
Ʋncompt, yet wholſome to an heart renu'd:
Your kind acceptance will it crowne, and raiſe
Above its worth, and be the Poets Bayrs
Who for your Noble Favours whilſt that hee
Remain'd cloſe Priſoner, Exile in Jerſe.
Sequeſtred from all friends acceſſe, ſhall reſt
Whiles any ſparkes of life ſtay in his Breſt
Your Ladiſhips moſt obliged, moſt devoted friend and ſervant WILLIAM PRYNNE.
Courteour Reader, I ſhall requeſt thee to correct theſe few Preſſe errors, which have ſcaped in ſome Coppies in my abſence. Errata.
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Their Errors are corrected with a Pen.
ROCKES IMPROVED. Compriſing certaine Poeticall Meditations, extracted from the contemplation of the Nature and Qualities of Rockes; a Barren and Harſh Soyle, yet a Fruitfull and Delightfull Subject of Meditation.
THE PROEME.
WHen from the lofty *Mount-Orguil.Caſtle I eſpie
The ragged Rocks, which round about it lye;
My Working thoughts begin from thence to raiſe
Some aPſal. 77. 12. Pſal. 19. 14. Pſal. 143. 5. Pſal 104. 34.Meditations, to their Makers Praiſe,
And mine own Profit: which my heart may warm,
Yea mount to Heaven, and vaine fancies charm.