Authority Cited: May
Author name and dates: Thomas May (1595-1650)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; dramatist; trans. Latin poetry, Lucan history; wrote Hist. of Parliament; Abbey burial removed at Restoration
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note; about 28 May cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 29 May cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additional May cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. All May citations appear to be from the title below. The headwords are variously cited in the 1755 Dict. as noted.]
Virgil's Georgicks Englished. by Tho: May Esqr; 1628, Lo[ndon]: Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Tho: Walkley in Brittains Burse. (See image below.)
Author name and dates: Thomas May (1595-1650)
Creative commons License, National Portrait Gallery
BKG Bio-tweet: Poet; dramatist; trans. Latin poetry, Lucan history; wrote Hist. of Parliament; Abbey burial removed at Restoration
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note; about 28 May cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 29 May cites in Dict. vol. 2. No additional May cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. All May citations appear to be from the title below. The headwords are variously cited in the 1755 Dict. as noted.]
Virgil's Georgicks Englished. by Tho: May Esqr; 1628, Lo[ndon]: Printed by Augustine Mathewes for Tho: Walkley in Brittains Burse. (See image below.)
- Virgil; aldern (p.8); bitume; break; bull; casting-net; cod; course; croak; dragnet; earsh; eve (p.23); exordium; fameless; gatherer; great; hay; instantly; kingfisher; lay; oppositely; osier; rack; rath (2); shortwinded; sit (2); solstice; subdue; tane; unconstant; unmoved; unsifted; venom (same quote as plague); warden; water (same quote as unwonted and upstand);
- Virgil’s Georgics; arbute; card; fesels; foal; hart; hearten (p.5); ingraff; inoculate; neat; plague; rake; rust;
- May (no work cited); collar; hinderer; lioness; moyle; prey; reedless; theif; tomb; unwonted; upstand;
