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fummer, ranked him with Stanley and Keeble ; and his en- 

 thufiafm for Scarlatti's leflbns, with which he was imprefled 

 by Rofeingrave, rendered him equal to Kelway in their 

 execution. 



With an extempore prelude, alia Palejlrina, and one of 

 Handel's organ-fugues, he ufed to preface his concerto every 

 night. 



At length he got acquainted with Geminiani, fwore by 

 no other divinity, and on confulting him on the fubjeft of 

 compofition, he was told that he would never be acquainted 

 with all the arcana of the fcience, without reading " El 

 Porque della Mufica," a book written in Spanilh per Andres 

 Lorente, en Alcala, 1672. But where was this book to 

 be had ? Geminiani told him, and told him truly, that the 

 traft was very fcarce. He had, indeed, a copy of it him- 

 felf ; but he would not part with it under twenty guineas. 

 Worgan, on fire to be in pofleffion of this oracular au- 

 thor, immediately purchafed the book at the price men- 

 tioned ; not underftanding a word of Spanifli, he went to 

 work in learning it as eagerly as Rowe the poet, when lord 

 Oxford had exprefled a wi(h that he underftood that lan- 

 guage, which Rowe thought would qualify him for a good 

 place under government. But after hard drudgery, when 

 he haftened to acquaint the niinifter of ftate that he thought 

 himfelf a tolerable mafter of the Spanifh tongue, " I give 

 you joy (fays lord Oxford) ; you are now able to read Don 

 Quixote in the original." 



The knowledge of Spani(h and ftudyof Lorente feem to 

 have had no other effeft on Worgan's compofitions, than to 

 fpoil his Vauxhall fongs ; which though fung into popularity 

 by dint of repetition, had no attradlive grace, or pleafiog 

 call of melody. 



He compofed feveral oratorios, in which the chorufTes are 

 learned, and the accompaniments to his fongs ingenious. 

 The cantilena was original, it is true, but it was original 

 awkwardnefs, and attempts at novelty without nature for his 

 guide. 



His organ-playing, though more in the ftyle of Handel 

 than of any other fchool, is indeed learned and mafterly, in 

 a way quite his own. In his youth, he was impreffed with 

 a reverence for Domenico Scarlatti by old Rofeingrave's ac- 

 count of his wonderful performance on the harpfichord, as 

 well as by his leflbns ; and afterwards he became a great 

 colleftor of his pieces, fome of which he had been honoured 

 with from Madrid by the author himfelf. He was the edi- 

 tor of twelve at one time, and fix at another, that are ad- 

 mirable, though few have now perfeverance fufficient to 

 vanquifh their peculiar difBculties of execution. He is ftill 

 in pofleflion of many more, which he has always locked up 

 as Sybil's leaves. 



He had the misfortune to labour under two dreadful cala- 

 mities ; a bad wife, and the ftone. He got rid of the 

 former, after great mortifications and expence, by divorce ; 

 but in too early wifhing to abridge his fufferings from the 

 latter, he loft his life in the torture of an operation, Au- 

 guft 20, 1790. 



WORGAUM, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 the country of the Mahrattas ; 20 miles W. of Poonah. 



WORK, in the Manege. To work a horfe, is to exer- 

 cife him at pace, trot, or gallop, and ride him at the 

 manege. 



To work a horfe upon volts, or head and haunches in or 

 between two heels, is to paflage him, or make him go fide- 

 ways upon parallel lines. 



To Work, in Sea Language, is to direft the movements 

 of a fliip, by adapting the fails to the force and direftion of 

 the wind. A Ihip is alfo faid to work when (he drains and 



won 



labours heavily in a tempeltuous fea,'fo as to loofen her joint! 

 or timbers. See Rolling. 



Work, Carpenter's, Clock, Crown, Field, Fire, Fret, 

 Grotefque, Horn, Mo/aic, Out, Regimen of the, Rufiic, 

 Scratch, Stream, Vermicular, and Wax. See the feveral 

 articles. 



Work, Difcharge, in Calico-Printimg, &c. a peculiar 

 kind of procefs, in which the cloth is firft dyed of fome 

 uniform colour, by means of a mixture of iron-liquor and 

 fome one or more of the common vegetable dyeing fub- 

 ftances ; and calicoes thus prepared are faid to be dyed 

 of felf-colours. They are then walhed and dried, and 

 when properly prefled or calendered, they are fit for receiv- 

 ing any pattern, according to the views of the artift. This 

 operation is generally effefted by means of the mineral acids, 

 previoufly fitted for the purpofe by diffblving in them a por- 

 tion of one or more of the metals, according to the nature 

 of the dye which is intended to be dif charged, or of the 

 colour to be produced. In doing this, the difcharging liquor 

 ftiould be fo made as to be capable of diflblving the iron 

 which is contained in the dye, and which is always ufed in 

 quantity fufEcient for covering, or at leaft difguifing in a 

 great meafure, the other colour or colours which had beea 

 employed with it, and at the fame time for afting as a mor- 

 dant in beautifying and fixing thofe colours. Thus a piece 

 treated with a decoftion of Brafil-wood, and dyed black by 

 being padded with iron-liquor, if when dried it be printed 

 with a peculiar folution of tin, the ferruginous portion 

 of the dye will be difiblved, and the printed part will be in- 

 ftantly converted from a deep black to a brilliant crimfon. 

 The term padding denotes the operation of pafling the pieces 

 from a roller through a trough containing a folution of 

 iron, or any other mordant, and is fynonymous with blotch- 

 ing. In the fame way, an olive-coloured calico, dyed in a 

 folution of iron and a decoftion of weld, will be as fpeedily 

 changed to a bright pale yellow ; and the various drabs and 

 flates of every (hade which have been in their compofition, 

 will undergo as fudden a change by the fame treatment ; 

 though the colour of the figures produced upon them will 

 depend on the materials with which the cloths were originally 

 dyed. Even the deepeft gold colours, or ftrongeft buffs, if 

 produced by iron only, may, by a peculiar preparation of 

 tin, be difcharged ; and thofe parts of the cloth which have 

 been treated with this metallic folution, will be reftored to 

 their former whitenefs. Calicoes alfo, dyed of a hght blue 

 in the indigo-vat, then paffed through fumach and copperas, 

 and finiflied in a bath of quercitron bark and alum, may 

 have figures of a bright green imparted to them. In this 

 cafe, the green is originally formed by means of the 

 indigo-vat and the bark, though it is enveloped by the iron 

 of the copperas, wliich overcomes the other colours, till the 

 folution of the tin is applied, which removes the iron from 

 thofe particular parts, and gives a brilliancy to the remain- 

 ing colour, which they would not otherwife have poflefled ; 

 the tin being a powerful mordant for the bark, by which 

 the yellow of the green is procured. A good felf-colour 

 may likewife be given to calicoes, merely by dyeing them in 

 fumach and copperas, and then running them through an 

 alkaline folution of annotto ; and here the figures produced 

 by the application of a colourlefs folution of tin will be of a 

 bright orange. 



In the inftances above cited from Mr. Parkes's Effays, 

 vol. ii., he refers only to that branch of difcharge-work in 

 which all the purpofes are attained by diflblving the iron that 

 makes a part of the colour intended to be difcharged ; 

 whereas the finer and more expenfive work is done by a dif- 

 ferent procefs. The particular kind of chemical difcharge- 

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