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chapiter, it has been very properly made em- 

 blematical of art. 



*' The art of our necessities is strange. 

 That can make vile things precious." 



Shaksjieare. 



ARTIFICE. 



Virgin's-bower. — Clematis flammn la . 



" Clematis, wreath afresh thy garden bower." 



" And virgin's bower, trailing airily." 



Keats. 



When artifice is innocently resorted to for 

 the purpose of giving pleasure, it may be com- 

 pared to the agreeable fragrance of the sweet 

 clematis. But when it is used to entangle the 

 unwary, it becomes the agent of him whom 

 Milton thus describes ; 



" He, soon aware, 

 Each perturbation smooth'd with outward calm. 

 Artificer of fraud ! and was the first 

 That practis'd falsehood under saintly show." 



