Plot on proud Rome and lay thy damned design
- DMI number:
- 42973
- First Line:
- Plot on proud Rome and lay thy damned design
- Last Line:
- They're fitter to converse with beasts than men
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Topical satire, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hell, Places[Rome.], Politics, Religion[anti-Catholicism.], and The monarchy (heads of state)[Charles II.]
- Author:
- Robert Wild
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- In the ODNB, Richard L. Greaves states that Wild 'threw down the gauntlet to the papacy in An Exclamation Against Popery (1678)'.
- Title:
- Rome rhym'd to death. Being a collection of choice poems: in two parts [ESTC R16454]
- Page No(s):
- pp.1-4
- Poem Title:
- An Exclamation against Popery
- Attribution:
- By Dr. Wild.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Wild
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