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Title: Damon in pain, or The love-smitten swain. A sonnet.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502). At end, "T.F." (?).
Title: The billet-doux. To Phillis, Damon wanting ease, In humble manner sendeth these.
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Comic love song included within the long hudibrastic satire "Sir Fantastick" (BCMSV 3502).
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Epigram on the power of poetry as the best means of preserving the past from the effects of time, occurring as epigraph (on the title-page) to the following "Origine of the taylor's gentility" (BCMSV 3503)
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding song in praise of a house and its occupants, part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epigram about Jove's tomb with which Hesiod won a contest against Homer; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding comment by Ovid about Anacreon, revealing the latter's reputation as a lover and drinker; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Aeschylus, part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding prediction of the fame of Euripides, made by the oracle of Apollo, here part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Lycurgus, here in relation to Euripides; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Euripides, suggesting that he does honour to his tomb rather than vice versa; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington,
Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding couplet from Homer, on the need to accept a mother's word on the paternity of her child; part of a piece on Aristophanes in 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh
Wormington,
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding distich apparently by Plato, praising Aristophanes; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.