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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
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
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
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
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
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'