Poem Genre / Form: Lampoon / Poem Theme: Religion

1. A butcher's son's judge capital

First Line:: A butcher's son's judge capital
Last Line:: And so like a knave let's leave him
Author:: Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:: 4868

2. A country clown called Hodge went up to view

First Line:: A country clown called Hodge went up to view
Last Line:: His body fell out fled his frighted soul
Author:: Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3638

3. A pox on the pope with his damned bald pate

First Line:: A pox on the pope with his damned bald pate
Last Line:: Our hogs we've brought to a blessed market
DMI number:: 43006

4. A session of lovers was held the other day

First Line:: A session of lovers was held the other day
Last Line:: He had left being a man she would make him a beast
DMI number:: 4446

5. A protestant priest a man of great fame

First Line:: A protestant priest a man of great fame
Last Line:: But the flesh did prevail by the help of his wife | Which nobody can deny deny which nobody can deny
DMI number:: 4970

6. A true dissenter here does lie indeed

First Line:: A true dissenter here does lie indeed
Last Line:: He faced to Rome then marched off to the devil
DMI number:: 42347

7. Abhorred abhorrers horribly abhorred

First Line:: Abhorred abhorrers horribly abhorred
Last Line:: Does vote abhorrers all to be abhorred
DMI number:: 43028

8. Alas what has this poor animal done

First Line:: Alas what has this poor animal done
Last Line:: The direful operations of your ungodly hate
DMI number:: 42984

9. Again my muse - nor fear the steepy flight

First Line:: Again my muse - nor fear the steepy flight
Last Line:: Nor could his virtue win a factious people's love
Author:: William Shippen (Confident)
DMI number:: 5899

10. Among the little pages that were sent

First Line:: Among the little pages that were sent
Last Line:: Or mother-church espouse her bully's cause
DMI number:: 5893

11. All that have two or but one ear

First Line:: All that have two or but one ear
Last Line:: From colt twas called Colchester
DMI number:: 18413

12. Appear thou mighty bard to open view

First Line:: Appear thou mighty bard to open view
Last Line:: Though thou'rt the only proof how interest can prevail
DMI number:: 6455

13. As I lay musing all alone

First Line:: As I lay musing all alone
Last Line:: And from such sin ever to keep
DMI number:: 44491

14. As I walking was the other day

First Line:: As I walking was the other day
Last Line:: And when I more do hear I more will tell ye
DMI number:: 4881

15. At dead of night when peaceful spirits sleep

First Line:: At dead of night when peaceful spirits sleep
Last Line:: By Murray's projects and by Prior's mouse
DMI number:: 7277

16. As when proud Lucifer aimed at a throne

First Line:: As when proud Lucifer aimed at a throne
Last Line:: For though his pride's as great his cunning's less
DMI number:: 3683

17. Behold from the infernal lake I'm come

First Line:: Behold from the infernal lake I'm come
Last Line:: Good night little good Mr Devil's doctor
DMI number:: 43064

18. Chaste pious prudent C------ the second

First Line:: Chaste pious prudent C------ the second
Last Line:: Prove wretched kinged by storks and logs
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation) & John Freke (Confident) & Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3653

19. Chaste pious prudent Charles the second

First Line:: Chaste pious prudent Charles the second
Last Line:: Prove wretched kinged by storks and logs
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation) & John Freke (Confident) & Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:: 5673

20. Come all you loyal churchmen

First Line:: Come all you loyal churchmen
Last Line:: And a cart's arse for Hugh
DMI number:: 12136

21. Comus nor Momus now must be my theme

First Line:: Comus nor Momus now must be my theme
Last Line:: The doctor holed with the badger at his back
Author:: John Dean (Absolute)
DMI number:: 43055

22. Damon the author of so great renown

First Line:: Damon the author of so great renown
Last Line:: To find a better patron of the Pope
DMI number:: 4448

23. Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines

First Line:: Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines
Last Line:: For then your horns shall be your pride
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 15880

24. Dear wife let me have a fire made

First Line:: Dear wife let me have a fire made
Last Line:: For which we have justly deserved a rope | This it is to be learned and witty
DMI number:: 4949

25. Dignified things may I your leave implore

First Line:: Dignified things may I your leave implore
Last Line:: You're downright rogues they only knaves and fools
DMI number:: 4905

26. Dignified things may I your leaves implore

First Line:: Dignified things may I your leaves implore
Last Line:: You're downright rogues they only knaves and fools
DMI number:: 42329

27. Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

First Line:: Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long
Last Line:: Why then the marvel that a poet sings
DMI number:: 6483

28. Even as a lion with his paws upreared

First Line:: Even as a lion with his paws upreared
Last Line:: And Salamanca's shall be known no more
DMI number:: 43113

29. Experience out of observation says

First Line:: Experience out of observation says
Last Line:: The righteous man to punish sinful folly
DMI number:: 43712

30. Friar Paul in his cell made his exit of late

First Line:: Friar Paul in his cell made his exit of late
Last Line:: Who above eat his god may below eat the devil
DMI number:: 17962

31. Friend thou dost lash me with a story

First Line:: Friend thou dost lash me with a story
Last Line:: Was cut from Spain without a hand saw
Author:: James Smith (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42493

32. For the miracles done

First Line:: For the miracles done
Last Line:: From the conducts of W----- and M-----
DMI number:: 4572

33. From the blessed regions of eternal day

First Line:: From the blessed regions of eternal day
Last Line:: Britain shall be his throne in time to come
DMI number:: 3659

34. From the embraces of a harlot flown

First Line:: From the embraces of a harlot flown
Last Line:: Shall curse the writers and deplore the fire
DMI number:: 4864

35. Great truckling soul whose stubborn honesty

First Line:: Great truckling soul whose stubborn honesty
Last Line:: So Jack of all faiths and of none adieu
DMI number:: 4503

36. Good God what means this sudden alteration

First Line:: Good God what means this sudden alteration
Last Line:: For if he rise he'll gaol us all for treason
DMI number:: 43063

37. Good people I pray now attend to my muse

First Line:: Good people I pray now attend to my muse
Last Line:: My muse she grows weary and thus she doth end | With pox o' chancellor villainous chancellor | Damnable chancellor oh
DMI number:: 42346

38. Here lives the wolf justice a butcherly knave

First Line:: Here lives the wolf justice a butcherly knave
Last Line:: We'll die at our doors ere in Smithfield we'll burn
Author:: Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:: 4871

39. Here lives the wolf justice and butcherly knave

First Line:: Here lives the wolf justice and butcherly knave
Last Line:: We'll die at our doors ere in Smithfield we'll burn
Author:: Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:: 42318

40. I come to charge ye

First Line:: I come to charge ye
Last Line:: You shall be hanged and Ketch shall have your clothes
DMI number:: 1107

41. I did intend in rhymes heroic

First Line:: I did intend in rhymes heroic
Last Line:: All quickly will return to forty eight
DMI number:: 6451

42. I am a senseless thing with a hey with a hey

First Line:: I am a senseless thing with a hey with a hey
Last Line:: For a martyr's place above | With a hey tronny nonny nonny no
Author:: Stephen College (Confident)
DMI number:: 4737

43. In his holiness name

First Line:: In his holiness name
Last Line:: And so drive away honest carman
DMI number:: 42365

44. Is Tapski dead why then the statesman lied

First Line:: Is Tapski dead why then the statesman lied
Last Line:: Is gone a pilgrimage to hell below
DMI number:: 43057

45. Is this thy glory now is this thy pride

First Line:: Is this thy glory now is this thy pride
Last Line:: All the wild mazes of thy politics
DMI number:: 43040

46. Julian in verse to ease thy wants I write

First Line:: Julian in verse to ease thy wants I write
Last Line:: And villain Frank kiss Mazarin no more
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation) & Anthony Cary [Carey] (Confident)
DMI number:: 4763

47. My master Dolben he did well

First Line:: My master Dolben he did well
Last Line:: Good morrow master Dolben my masters and mistresses all good morning
DMI number:: 8063

48. I know you hope all once to be

First Line:: I know you hope all once to be
Last Line:: At last with pox he hurrying went | Like thunder
DMI number:: 43116

49. I marched three miles through scorching sand

First Line:: I marched three miles through scorching sand
Last Line:: What mortal else could ever go through it
Author:: Jonathan Swift (Speculation)
DMI number:: 11314

50. If Cecil the wise

First Line:: If Cecil the wise
Last Line:: And swear he was none of his race
DMI number:: 6486

51. If I wear out of date as I find I fall down

First Line:: If I wear out of date as I find I fall down
Last Line:: And blind the whole world with fopperies and lies
DMI number:: 42366

52. If long he to that idol pray

First Line:: If long he to that idol pray
Last Line:: Is lost for ever and for ay
DMI number:: 43806

53. No wonder winds more dreadful are by far

First Line:: No wonder winds more dreadful are by far
Last Line:: Burn but the witch and all is well
DMI number:: 5014

54. Of a tall statue and of sable hue

First Line:: Of a tall statue and of sable hue
Last Line:: Then how much greater mischiefs such a king
DMI number:: 42359

55. Of a tall stature and of sable hue

First Line:: Of a tall stature and of sable hue
Last Line:: Then how much greater mischiefs such a king
Author:: Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3637

56. O ye Britons draw near

First Line:: O ye Britons draw near
Last Line:: And so we'll unite the whole nation
DMI number:: 5712

57. Of all the fools the present times produce

First Line:: Of all the fools the present times produce
Last Line:: A high-church footing for the low-church sake
Author:: Edward Ward (Speculation)
DMI number:: 7970

58. Oh heavens we have signs below

First Line:: Oh heavens we have signs below
Last Line:: Good lord deliver this poor realm
DMI number:: 42307

59. Once how I doted on this jilting town

First Line:: Once how I doted on this jilting town
Last Line:: But all the mighty pother ends in punk
Author:: Charles Sackville (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3665

60. Pray pardon John Bays for I beg your excuse

First Line:: Pray pardon John Bays for I beg your excuse
Last Line:: I hate knaves in it but I love the gown well
DMI number:: 4862

61. Say goddess muse for thy all searching eyes

First Line:: Say goddess muse for thy all searching eyes
Last Line:: Retiring leaves their hopes involved in endless night
Author:: Matthew Prior (Speculation) & William Shippen (Confident)
DMI number:: 5898

62. Read the commandments Trapp translate no further

First Line:: Read the commandments Trapp translate no further
Last Line:: For there 'tis written thou shalt do no murder
DMI number:: 12501

63. Republicans your tuneful voices raise

First Line:: Republicans your tuneful voices raise
Last Line:: But thank the almighty if you are not damned
DMI number:: 7264

64. Sicilian goddess whose prophetic tongue

First Line:: Sicilian goddess whose prophetic tongue
Last Line:: The poet's envy and the critic's pain
DMI number:: 4595

65. Shall every Jack and every Jill

First Line:: Shall every Jack and every Jill
Last Line:: From such a vile untimely end
DMI number:: 43007

66. She that can sit three sermons in a day

First Line:: She that can sit three sermons in a day
Last Line:: This is an holy sister verily
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Speculation)
DMI number:: 42557

67. So two rude waves by storms together thrown

First Line:: So two rude waves by storms together thrown
Last Line:: As yours when you thanked God for being beat
Author:: Abraham Cowley (Absolute)
DMI number:: 42556

68. So have I seen a Dean of St Paul's

First Line:: So have I seen a Dean of St Paul's
Last Line:: And all for sleeves of lawn
DMI number:: 4890

69. Sir William in arcta custodia lies

First Line:: Sir William in arcta custodia lies
Last Line:: And having spit his venom out he died
DMI number:: 4865

70. Sir you'll excuse me for inditing

First Line:: Sir you'll excuse me for inditing
Last Line:: Twill be no hard matter to cuckold the devil
DMI number:: 8060

71. Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men

First Line:: Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men
Last Line:: That even God almighty will depose
DMI number:: 7789

72. Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men

First Line:: Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men
Last Line:: That even God almighty would depose
Author:: John Tutchin (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4449

73. Since by just flames the guilty piece is lost

First Line:: Since by just flames the guilty piece is lost
Last Line:: And make us while we pity him forget our loyalty
Author:: Matthew Prior (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4444

74. Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms

First Line:: Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms
Last Line:: By G- 'twould have made him mad
Author:: John Wilmot (Confident)
DMI number:: 5667

75. Spread a large canvas painter to contain

First Line:: Spread a large canvas painter to contain
Last Line:: This crowd of traitors hanged in effigy
Author:: John Ayloffe (Speculation) & Andrew Marvell (Speculation) & Henry Savile (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3633

76. Stand forth thou grand impostor of our time

First Line:: Stand forth thou grand impostor of our time
Last Line:: Recant thy books and then go hang thyself
DMI number:: 6546

77. Strange and unnatural let's stay and see

First Line:: Strange and unnatural let's stay and see
Last Line:: And all thy damned forefathers were from Martell down to Pen
DMI number:: 42375

78. The calve's head brawny c---- leads the van

First Line:: The calve's head brawny c---- leads the van
Last Line:: And faction's baleful damps extinguish gospel light
DMI number:: 7450

79. The mighty monarch of this British isle

First Line:: The mighty monarch of this British isle
Last Line:: Your souls to Rome but send the pope to hell
DMI number:: 4920

80. There are some things accounted real

First Line:: There are some things accounted real
Last Line:: But practise must the art of flying
DMI number:: 5026

81. Thus long the wise commons have been in debate

First Line:: Thus long the wise commons have been in debate
Last Line:: Must be damned in the cup like unworthy receivers
Author:: John Wilmot (Absolute)
DMI number:: 4738

82. Tis a strange thing to think on

First Line:: Tis a strange thing to think on
Last Line:: Tis the Devil that enters the swine
DMI number:: 6488

83. To speak the truth is criminal now

First Line:: To speak the truth is criminal now
Last Line:: And our distressed land surround
DMI number:: 7478

84. Tis strange that you to whom I've long been known

First Line:: Tis strange that you to whom I've long been known
Last Line:: And leave the bishops to reform the age
DMI number:: 3647

85. Tis said when George did dragon slay

First Line:: Tis said when George did dragon slay
Last Line:: We shall Grex it
DMI number:: 4880

86. To make myself for this employment fit

First Line:: To make myself for this employment fit
Last Line:: That and his courage too are on record
Author:: John Wilmot (Speculation)
DMI number:: 6383

87. To our once loyal town is lately come down

First Line:: To our once loyal town is lately come down
Last Line:: Like a Cordelier friar must be saved by his ropes | When Satan was squeamish and longed for a dainty | The pope fricasseed him this new four and twenty
DMI number:: 42370

88. Today this temple gets a dean

First Line:: Today this temple gets a dean
Last Line:: Who never thought of heaven
DMI number:: 18171

89. To get a good peace and a flourishing trade

First Line:: To get a good peace and a flourishing trade
Last Line:: In hopes to procure a dewitting
DMI number:: 8057

90. Unhappier age who ever saw

First Line:: Unhappier age who ever saw
Last Line:: To Jesuits the state
DMI number:: 6485

91. Unhappy age and we in it

First Line:: Unhappy age and we in it
Last Line:: To Jesuits the state
DMI number:: 42326

92. Unhappy state condemned to worst of things

First Line:: Unhappy state condemned to worst of things
Last Line:: And send us Daniel to the lion's den
DMI number:: 5688

93. Twere folly if ever

First Line:: Twere folly if ever
Last Line:: But tis lately found out by our prudent addressors
Author:: William Wharton (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3967

94. We read in profane and sacred records

First Line:: We read in profane and sacred records
Last Line:: There's ten times more treason in brandy and ale
Author:: John Ayloffe (Speculation) & Andrew Marvell (Speculation)
DMI number:: 3639

95. We are told by the town that a man of great note

First Line:: We are told by the town that a man of great note
Last Line:: To bail high-church one day and vote next for the low
DMI number:: 8076

96. What shall a glorious nation be overthrown

First Line:: What shall a glorious nation be overthrown
Last Line:: And suck all the sweetness of the land
DMI number:: 43080

97. What a devil ails the parliament

First Line:: What a devil ails the parliament
Last Line:: As Thomas Earl of D--by
DMI number:: 4866

98. When Clarendon had discerned beforehand

First Line:: When Clarendon had discerned beforehand
Last Line:: He comes to be roasted next St James's fair
Author:: Andrew Marvell (Confident)
DMI number:: 3680

99. When A--a was the church's daughter

First Line:: When A--a was the church's daughter
Last Line:: She leaves her daughter in the lurch
DMI number:: 5711

100. When great Nassau is dead and gone

First Line:: When great Nassau is dead and gone
Last Line:: The strangest Queendom ever was
Author:: Henry Mordaunt (Speculation)
DMI number:: 5889

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1. A butcher's son's judge capital

2. A country clown called Hodge went up to view

3. A pox on the pope with his damned bald pate

4. A session of lovers was held the other day

5. A protestant priest a man of great fame

6. A true dissenter here does lie indeed

7. Abhorred abhorrers horribly abhorred

8. Alas what has this poor animal done

9. Again my muse - nor fear the steepy flight

10. Among the little pages that were sent

11. All that have two or but one ear

12. Appear thou mighty bard to open view

13. As I lay musing all alone

14. As I walking was the other day

15. At dead of night when peaceful spirits sleep

16. As when proud Lucifer aimed at a throne

17. Behold from the infernal lake I'm come

18. Chaste pious prudent C------ the second

19. Chaste pious prudent Charles the second

20. Come all you loyal churchmen

21. Comus nor Momus now must be my theme

22. Damon the author of so great renown

23. Dear Smed I read thy brilliant lines

24. Dear wife let me have a fire made

25. Dignified things may I your leave implore

26. Dignified things may I your leaves implore

27. Dryden thy wit has caterwauled too long

28. Even as a lion with his paws upreared

29. Experience out of observation says

30. Friar Paul in his cell made his exit of late

31. Friend thou dost lash me with a story

32. For the miracles done

33. From the blessed regions of eternal day

34. From the embraces of a harlot flown

35. Great truckling soul whose stubborn honesty

36. Good God what means this sudden alteration

37. Good people I pray now attend to my muse

38. Here lives the wolf justice a butcherly knave

39. Here lives the wolf justice and butcherly knave

40. I come to charge ye

41. I did intend in rhymes heroic

42. I am a senseless thing with a hey with a hey

43. In his holiness name

44. Is Tapski dead why then the statesman lied

45. Is this thy glory now is this thy pride

46. Julian in verse to ease thy wants I write

47. My master Dolben he did well

48. I know you hope all once to be

49. I marched three miles through scorching sand

50. If Cecil the wise

51. If I wear out of date as I find I fall down

52. If long he to that idol pray

53. No wonder winds more dreadful are by far

54. Of a tall statue and of sable hue

55. Of a tall stature and of sable hue

56. O ye Britons draw near

57. Of all the fools the present times produce

58. Oh heavens we have signs below

59. Once how I doted on this jilting town

60. Pray pardon John Bays for I beg your excuse

61. Say goddess muse for thy all searching eyes

62. Read the commandments Trapp translate no further

63. Republicans your tuneful voices raise

64. Sicilian goddess whose prophetic tongue

65. Shall every Jack and every Jill

66. She that can sit three sermons in a day

67. So two rude waves by storms together thrown

68. So have I seen a Dean of St Paul's

69. Sir William in arcta custodia lies

70. Sir you'll excuse me for inditing

71. Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men

72. Since plagues were ordered for a scourge to men