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Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6

Title: To the author of a late lampoon

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Attack upon a poet by whom he has been lampooned or satirised, censuring his presumption, birth, breeding and wit

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Title: To the fair Mrs --- L.C. In favour of the author's freind.

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Plea to a woman to be kind in love to the writer's friend, since he feels the latter's suffering at her disdain

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Title: On a lady, or rather a monster, who scurrilously affronted the author

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Lively detailed attack on the character and appearance of a woman who has offended him

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Title: The author upon being usher to a school sent the following lines to his freind. 1716.

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 1716 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: On his supposedly tyrannical use of power over those in his charge when usher at a school, in the form of a lighthearted letter to a friend

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Title: A vindication of two young ladies scandalously lampooned. A song.

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 171- ?

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: Song attacking the impudence of a lampoon or satire on some fashionable women, stressing that its author would never be capable of damaging their reputations

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Title: The empirick

Author: Wormington, Hugh

Date(s): 172- ?

Manuscript: Lt 80

Contents: On the dangerous practices of untrained physicians or 'empirics', liable to kill their patients; one of a series of sketches entitled 'A set of humane characters in miniature'

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