Rome Rhym'd to Death

by John Wilmot, Dr. Wild, Stephen Colledge and Anonymous

Rome Rhym’d
To
Death.
Being a Collection
Of Choice
Poems:
In two parts.

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Written by the E. of R. Dr. Wild, and others of the best Modern Wits.

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London,
Printed for John How, at the Seven Stars, at the South-West corner of the Royal Exchange, in Cornhill. 1683.

Poems
On
Several Occasions.
Written by the E. of R. Dr. Wild and others of the Choicest Modern Wits.

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The Second Part.

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London,
Printed for John How, at the Seven Stars at the South-West Corner of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1683.

Contents (not listed in original)

Part 1

• An Exclamation against Popery
• A New Song on the Hellish Popish Plot
• On the Burning of several Cart-loads of Popish Books
• The Catholick Ballad: Or an Invitation to Popery
• A Continuation of the Catholick Ballad inviting to Popery
• On Rome’s Pardons
• Written by Stephen Colledge, the day before he dyed
• London’s Fatal Fall
• A Quadruple Acrostick on London
• London Anagram
• Upon the Fifth of November
• The Devil pursued: Or, the right Saddle laid upon the right Mare
• On the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey of Westminster
• The Loyal Protestants New Litany
• The Jesuit Jerk'd
• On the Murther of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey
• A Passionate Satyr upon a Devilish Great He-Whore that live yonder at Rome
• Upon the Execution of the late Viscount Stafford
• The Lord Stafford’s Ghost, &c.
• The Ghosts of Edward Fitz Harris, and Oliver Plunket, who were Executed at Tyburn for High Treason, &c.
• The Answer of Coleman’s Ghost To H. N’s Poetick Offering
• A Dialogue between the Pope and the Turk, Concerning the Propagation of the Catholick Faith
• On Sir John Oldcaste, Lord Cobham, who suffered December 1417
• Ignoramus
• A Song
• On the Death of the Plot

Part 2

• In nova fert Animus, &c.
• Upon the new Parliament
• Another
• Upon the Prentices-Feast at Merchant-Taylors-Hall
• A Rejoynder to the Whiggish Poem upon the the Tory-Prentices-Feast at Merchant-Taylors-Hall
• An Answer to the Tories Pamphlet called, The Loyal Feast
• The Informers Lecture to His Sons, Instructing them in the Mysteries of that Religion
• 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
• An Epitaph
• On Liberty of Conscience
• To the King
• The Character of a True English-Man
• Abhorrers Abhor'd
• To the Parliament
• A short Reply to Absalon and Achitophel
• Oliver Cromwels Ghost
• Upon Nothing
• On Bow-Church and Steeple
• The Conclusion

Books Printed for John How, at the Sign of the Seven Stars, at the South-West corner of the Royal Exchange, in Cornhil.

The Present State of London.

The Protestant School-Master, being plain and easiy Directions for Spelling and Reading English, and an Account of all the Plots, Treasons, Murders and Massacres, committed by the Papists, on the Protestants in most Countrys in Europe, for near 600 Years.

Catastrophy Mundi, or Merlin Reviv’d, with Mr. Lilly’s Hiroglyphicks.

Romes Follies, or the Amorous Fryars: a Play.

Sion in Distress, or the Groans of the Protestant Church.