385 PIGEON LITERATURE. 



To Mr. JOHN MOORE, 

 Author of the celebrated WORM-POWDER, 



a witty production of ten verses, that may be found in the 

 poet's works. 



I have also discovered that Moore is referred to by Swift in 

 " A Letter from a G-entleman in the Country to his Friend in 

 Town," who compares his existence to that of a tenant of some 

 house, saying: 



"At this present time I live in a poor, little, sorry house of clay 

 .... and, what is worst of all, am liable to be turned out at a 



minute's warning I might have had my tenement (such as it 



is) upon better terms if it had not been for a fault of my great grand- 

 father; he and his wife together, with the advice of an ill neighbour, 

 were concerned in robbing an orchard belonging to the lord of the 

 manor When I am turned out, I understand my lodge, or what- 

 ever you please to call it, depends upon a low-spirited, creeping 

 family, remarkable for nothing but being instrumental in advancing 

 the reputation of the Great Moor in Abchurch Lane." 



Mr. Tegetmeier says, in the Introduction to his reprint: 

 " Twenty-two years before the issue of the ' Columbarium ' he 

 (Moore) published a work with the following title: 



"Arcana Mooreana ; or a Succinct and Lucid Discourse of the Origine, 

 Essence, Scituation, Symptoms, Causes, and Cure of the Cholick. In 

 all its various Denominations, different Kinds, Degrees and Compli- 

 cations. Done by Mr. John Moore, Apothecary, at the Pestle and 

 Mortar, in Abchurch Lane, near Lumbard Street, London : Printed 

 for the Author 1713." 



He also says : " It is probable that the writer must have been 

 in business some time, as he states: 



"If ever any person upon the face of the universe who devoted his 

 whole life to the doing good, and rendering himself beneficial to man- 

 kind, has reason to complain of the ill and barbarous usage he ha& 

 encountered .... I am the Man." 



Though said to be " Reprinted verbatim et literatim from 

 the original edition of 1735," Mr. Tegetmeier's reprint con- 



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