Rome rhym'd to death. Being a collection of choice poems: in two parts [ESTC R16454]

DMI number:

1694

Publication Date:

1683

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

R16454

EEBO/ECCO link:

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:12255983

Shelfmark:

EEBO - Bod

Full Title:

ROME RHYM'D | TO | DEATH. | Being a Collection | OF CHOICE | POEMS: | In two parts. | [rule] | [i]Written by the[/i] E. [i]of[/i] R. [i]Dr.[/i] Wild, [i]and others of | the best Modern Wits.[/i] | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]John How[/i], at the [i]Seven Stars[/i], at | the South-West corner of the [i]Royal Ex- | change[/i], in [i]Cornhill[/i]. 1683.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of 17th century verse, Political miscellany, and Collection of satirical verse

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Separate title page, p. [81]: POEMS | ON | Several Occasions. | [i]Written by the E.[/i] of R. [i]Dr.[/i] Wild | [i]and others of the Choicest | Modern Wits.[/i] | [rule] | THE SECOND PART. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i], | Printed for [i]John How[/i], at the Seven Stars at the | South-West Corner of the Royal Ex- | change in [i]Cornhill[/i], 1683. Pagination and register are continuous.

Comments:

Contents: (1) 'Rome Rhym'd to Death, &c.', first sequence of poems, pp. 1-80. List of 'Books Printed for John How, at the Sign of the Seven Stars, at the South-West corner of the Royal Exchange, in Cornhil.' follows verse on p. 80. (2) 'Poems On Several Occasions. [...] The Second Part.', pp. 83-130. The second part has a separate title page, dated 1683, on p. [81]. Plates: Engraved title page in addition to letterpress.

References:

NCBEL 334 (1683)

Related People

Publisher:

John How

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for John How, at the Seven Stars, at the South-West corner of the Royal Exchange'.

Content/Publication

First Line:

Plot on proud Rome and lay thy damned design

Page No:

pp.1-4

Poem Title:

An Exclamation against Popery

Attribution:

By Dr. Wild.

Attributed To:

Robert Wild

First Line:

Come brother devils with full bowls

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pp.4-9

Poem Title:

A New Song on the Hellish Popish Plot; Sung by Belzebub, at a Merry-meeting of the Devils.

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First Line:

Welcome blessed day that happily didst save

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pp.9-12

Poem Title:

On the Burning of several Cart-loads of Popish Books, at the Royal Exchange.

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First Line:

Since popery of late is so much in debate

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pp.12-17

Poem Title:

The Catholick Ballad: Or an Invitation to Popery. To the Tune of 88.

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First Line:

From infallible Rome once more I am come

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pp.17-21

Poem Title:

A Continuation of the Catholick Ballad inviting to Popery; Upon the best Grounds and Reasons, that could ever yet be produced. To an excellent Tune, called, The Powder-plot.

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First Line:

If Rome can pardon sins as Romans hold

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

On Rome's Pardons

Attribution:

By the E. of R.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

What if I am into a prison cast

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pp.22-24

Poem Title:

Written by Stephen Colledge, the day before he dyed.

Attribution:

Written by Stephen Colledge

Attributed To:

Stephen College

First Line:

Lo now confused heaps only stand

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pp.24-26

Poem Title:

London's Fatal Fall: Being an Acrostick, &c. Written (as a Second Poetical Diversion) the 8th. of September, 1666.

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First Line:

Lo what a chaos this unhappy fall

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pp.26-27

Poem Title:

A Quadruple Acrostick on London.

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First Line:

Here lies the flower as you may understand

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pp.27-28

Poem Title:

London's Epitaph.

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First Line:

Though now I am unwilling woes attend

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p.27

Poem Title:

The Explication.

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First Line:

Hail happy hour wherein that hellish plot

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pp.28-31

Poem Title:

Upon the Fifth of November.

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First Line:

Alas what has this poor animal done

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pp.31-32

Poem Title:

The Devil pursued: Or, The right Saddle laid upon the right Mare. A Satyr upon Madam Celliers standing in the Pillory

Attribution:

By a Person of Quality.

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First Line:

O murder murder let this shriek fly round

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pp.33-36

Poem Title:

On the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey of Westminster: An hasty Poem.

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First Line:

From the Romish whore with her triple crown

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pp.37-39

Poem Title:

The Loyal Protestants New Litany.

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First Line:

Ascend Alecto from thy den and come

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pp.40-47

Poem Title:

The Jesuit Jerk'd: A Satyr.

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First Line:

Are these the pope's grand tools

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pp.47-48

Poem Title:

On the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey.

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First Line:

A pox on the pope with his damned bald pate

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pp.48-50

Poem Title:

A Passionate Satyr upon a Devillish Great He-Whore that lives yonder at Rome.

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First Line:

Shall every Jack and every Jill

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pp.50-54

Poem Title:

Upon the Execution of the late Viscount Stafford.

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First Line:

From Stygian shade lo my pale ghost doth rise

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pp.55-59

Poem Title:

The Lord Stafford's Ghost, &c.

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First Line:

I groan and languish to relate

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pp.59-63

Poem Title:

The Ghosts of Edward Fitz Harris, and Oliver Plunket, who were Executed at Tyburn for High Treason, &c.

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First Line:

Rise Nevil rise and do not punish me

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pp.64-66

Poem Title:

The Answer of Coleman's Ghost, to H. N's. Poetick Offering.

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First Line:

Hail mighty monarch by whose aid

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pp.66-71

Poem Title:

A Dialogue between the Pope and the Turk, Concerning the Propagation of the Catholick Faith.

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First Line:

Rome's old new fraud in Cobham's fate we view

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pp.71-72

Poem Title:

On Sir John Oldcaste, Lord Cobham, who suffered December 1417.

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First Line:

Since popish plotters

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pp.72-75

Poem Title:

Ignoramus: a Song. To the Tune Law lies a bleeding.

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First Line:

A pox on whigs we'll now grow wise

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pp.75-78

Poem Title:

A Song.

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First Line:

Alas what thing can hope death's hand to escape

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pp.78-80

Poem Title:

On the Death of the Plot.

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First Line:

We are all tainted with the Athenian itch

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pp.83-85

Poem Title:

Dr. Wild's Poem. In nova fert Animus, &c. Or, A New Song To An Old Friend From An Old Poet, Upon the Hopeful New Parliament.

Attribution:

Dr. Wild's Poem.

Attributed To:

Robert Wild

First Line:

My landlord underpropped his house some years

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pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Upon the new Parliament.

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First Line:

Break sacred morn on our expecting isle

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pp.88-90

Poem Title:

Another.

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First Line:

The busy town grew still and city fops

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pp.91-93

Poem Title:

Upon the Prentices-Feast at Merchant-Taylors-Hall.

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First Line:

Well tory poets' answers come at last

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pp.93-95

Poem Title:

A Rejoynder to the Whiggish Poem upon the Tory-Prentices-Feast at Marchant-Taylors-Hall.

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First Line:

Tories are tools of Irish race

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pp.95-98

Poem Title:

An Answer to the Tories Pamphlet called, The Loyal Feast: To the Tune of Sauney will never be my love again.

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First Line:

Come children come and learn your father's trade

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pp.98-107

Poem Title:

The Informers Lecture To His Sons, Instructing them in the Mysteries of that Religion.

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First Line:

Go set Scotch bagpipes to the briskest notes

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pp.107-109

Poem Title:

An Elegy upon Marsh, A Publick Sworn Informer against Protestant Religious Meetings in the City of London, who Dyed very miserably in the Prison of the Compter.

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First Line:

Stay reader and piss here for it is said

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p.109

Poem Title:

An Epitaph.

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First Line:

No not one word can I of this great deed

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pp.110-112

Poem Title:

On Liberty of Conscience

Attribution:

By Dr. Wild.

Attributed To:

Robert Wild

First Line:

So great so universal and so free

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pp.112-114

Poem Title:

To the King.

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First Line:

The free-born English generous and wise

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pp.115-116

Poem Title:

The Character Of A True English-Man.

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First Line:

Abhorred abhorrers horribly abhorred

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pp.116-117

Poem Title:

Abhorrers Abhor'd.

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First Line:

Hail glorious senate welcome as the day

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pp.117-118

Poem Title:

To the Parliament.

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First Line:

In pious times when poets were well banged

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pp.118-121

Poem Title:

A short Reply to Absalon and Achitophel.

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First Line:

Roused from infernal caverns void of light

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pp.122-125

Poem Title:

Oliver Cromwels Ghost.

Attribution:

By Doctor Wild.

Attributed To:

Robert Wild

First Line:

Nothing thou elder brother Eve to shade

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pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Upon Nothing.

Attribution:

By the E. of R.

Attributed To:

John Wilmot

First Line:

Look how the country hobbs with wonder flock

Page No:

pp.128-130

Poem Title:

On Bow-Church and Steeple. Or a Second Poem upon Nothing.

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First Line:

Let God's unerring providence protect

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p.130

Poem Title:

The Conclusion.

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