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lay it thin upon the wood with a brush or pencil : this 

 do for the ground of any colour to lie upon wood. 



For a Green : Take pink and verdigrise, and 

 grind them together in linseed-oil, as thin as you 

 can well grind it ; then lay it smoothly on with 

 your brush, and drive it thin : once doing, for the 

 most part, will serve, if you lay it well ; and if 

 twice, be sure your first colour be thoroughly dry 

 before you lay on a second. 



Well, Scholar, having now taught you to paint 

 your rod, and we having still a mile to Tottenham- 

 High-Cross, I will, as we walk towards it, in the 

 cool shade of this sweet honeysuckle hedge, men- 

 tion to you some of the thoughts and joys that have 

 possessed my soul since we two met together. And 

 these thoughts shall be told you, that you also may 

 join with me in thankfulness, to " the Giver of every 

 good and perfect gift," for our happiness. And, that 

 our present happiness may appear to be the greater, 

 and we the more thankful for it, I will beg you to 

 consider with me, how many do, even at this very 

 time, lie under the torment of the stone, the gout, 

 and tooth-ache ; and this we are free from. And 

 every misery that I miss is a new mercy : and 

 therefore let us be thankful. There have been, 

 since we met, others that have met disasters of 

 broken limbs ; some have been blasted, others 

 thunder- strucken ; and we have been freed from 

 these> and all those many other miseries that threat- 

 en human nature : let us therefore rejoice and be 



