Record

Document Reference	Pw V 450/1
Title	MS prologue composed by Samuel Wesley, the younger, and Thomas Fitzgerald for Terence's Phormio, performed at Westminster School (Dec. 1727); 1727
Date	5 December 1727
Level	Piece
Content Description	A full description of the MS in which this item appears can be found under the reference Pw V 450.
Content Description	Text consists of 22 lines in elegiac couplets. This is a prologue specially written for Terence's Phormio, performed at Westminster School, 5 Dec. 1727. The text is preceded by the title, the date and the words 'Spoke by Gilpin' and is followed by the names Wesley and Fitzgerald. The prologue is written on f 1r and is followed by the epilogue on f 2r, for details of which see Pw V 450/2.
Title Of Work	Prologus Phormionis
First Line of Poem	Annua pompa patet, rerumq<ue> revertitur ordo
Last Line of Poem	Atq<ue> brevi longum perficietur opus
Language	Latin
Term	education, schools, Westminster School
Physical Description	For details of the physical evidence (paper, watermarks, etc) of the MS in which this item appears see the entry for Pw V 450.
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Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA72710	Terentius Afer; P. (c.190-c.159 BC); -; Terence; Roman comic dramatist	c.190-c.159 BC
NA73021	Gilpin; James (c.1710-1766); Mr; King's Scholar at Westminster School 1724-8	c.1710-1766
NA72806	Wesley; Samuel (1691-1739); Mr; the younger	1691-1739
NA74448	Fitzgerald; Thomas (c.1695-1752); Mr; Queen's Scholar Westminster School 1710-14; later Usher at Westminster School	c.1695-1752