But what, Great Gods! was worst of all,
Hell forth its magazines of Lusts did call,
Nor would it be content
With the thick troops of souls were thither sent;
Into the upper world it went,
Such guilt, such wickedness,
Such irreligion did increase,
That the few good who did survive,
Were angry with the Plague for suffring them to live,
More for the living than the dead did grieve:
Some robb’d the very dead,
Though sure to be infected ere they fled,
Though in the very Air sure to be punished.
Some nor the shrines nor temples spar’d,
Nor Gods, nor Heavens fear’d,
Though such examples of their power appear’d.
Vertue was now esteem’d an empty name,
And honesty the foolish voice of fame;
For having pass’d those tort’ring flames before,
They thought the punishment already o’re,
Thought Heaven no worse torments had in store,
Here having felt one Hell, they thought there was no more.
=FINIS=.
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A List of some choice Poems, Printed for _Henry Brome_ at the _Gun_
in _Ivy-lane_.
Poems {Lyrique, }
{Macronique, } by Mr. _Henry Bold_.
{Heroique, &c. }
Songs and Poems by Mr. _A. Brome_, the second Edition.
All the Songs and Poems on the _Long Parliament_, from 1640. till
1661. by Persons of Quality.
Songs and Poems by the Wits of both Universities.
_Scarronnides_, or _Virgil Travestie_, a Mock-Poem, being the first
Book of _Virgils Æneis_ in English, _Burlesque_.
_Scarronnides_, or _Virgil Travestie_, a Mock-Poem, being the fourth
Book of _Virgils Æneis_ in English, _Burlesque_: both by a Person of
Honour.
Also, a List of what Damages we have received by the _Dutch_; And a
brief History of the late War with the _Turks_.
~PLAYES~.
The English Moor.
The Love-sick Court.
The New Academy.
The Weeding of _Covent-Garden_.
The Royal Exchange.
The Jovial Crew; or the Merry Beggars.
_All by Mr_. Richard Brome.
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=IMPRIMATUR=,
Guil. Jane. R. P. D. Hen. Epis. Lond.
à Sacris Dom.
_Nov._ the _9th_ 1678.
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