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"It is more certain than certainty that in the northern shore of Ireland a place horrible by its terrors was found by him and is generally called St Patrick's Purgatory. The fame of that place has been so scattered through European parts that it…

"[POLONIA:] This, then, by mournful cypress trees surrounded,
Between the lips of rocks at either side,
Reveals a monstrous neck of length unbounded..."

A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory