"I nod in Company, I wake at Night,  / Fools rush into my Head, and so I write."
The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated
See Alexander Pope,  <u>The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated: In a Dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Com. Midd. Esq; On the One Part, and his Learned Council on the Other</u> (London: Printed by L. G. [Lawton Gilliver] and sold by A. Dodd; E. Nutt; and by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1733). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809261.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The Poems of Alexander Pope</u>, A One-Volume Edition of the Twickenham Text with Selected Annotations, ed. John Butt (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963).