"Their Conscience is a Worm within, / That gnaws them Night and Day."
To Mr. John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder
Written and 1716 and published (piratically) the same year. 2 entries in ESTC (1716).<br>
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See <u>To the Ingenious Mr. Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder. By Mr. Pope.</u> (London: Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1716). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5756">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>Court Poems. Viz; 1. The Basset-Table. An Eclogue. II. The Drawing-Room. III. The Toilet. A Copy of Verses to the Ingenious Mr. Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder. All Four by Mr. Pope. To Which is Added W.T. to Fair Clio.</u> (Dublin: Reprinted by S. Powell, at the Sign of the Printing-Press, in Copper-Alley; for G. Risk, Bookseller, at the Sign of the London in Dames-Street, 1716). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.its.virginia.edu/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW111289278&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from John Butt, ed. <u>The Poems of Alexander Pope</u> (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963). 