Thomas Moore published a volume of amatory poems in 1808, under the name of Thomas Little.
“When first I came my proper name was Little—now Iʹm Moore.”
Hood: The Wee Man.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.