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 Learn then from Greece, ye Youths, Proportion's 



1 Defign or Po- 



laW, fition the fe- 



cond Patt of 



Inform'd by her, each juft POSITION draw; ^ 



Skilful to range each large unequal part, 

 With varied motion and con trailed art ; 

 Full in the front the nobler limbs to place, 

 And poife each figure on its central bafe. 



But chief from her that flowing outline take, 1 50 

 Which floats, in wavy windings, like the fnake, 

 Or lambent flame; which, ample, broad, and long,, 

 Reliev'd not fwell'd, at once both light and ftrong^ 

 Glides thro' the graceful whole. Her art divine 

 Cuts not, in parts minute, the tame defign, 155 



Archetypis ; queis pofterior nil protulit astas 

 Condignum, & non inferius longe, arte modoque. 



Horum igitur vera ad normam pofitura legetur : VII 



Graphis feu 



Grandia, inaequalis, formofaque partibus amplis Pofitura ft- 



cunda Pifturae 



Anteriora dabit membra, in contraria mota 

 Diverfo variata,. fuo librataque centre ^ 



Membrorumque iinus ignis flammantis ad inflar> 

 Serpenti undantes flexu -, fed Ia3via, plana, 

 Magnaque figna, quafi fine tubere fubdita ta<5tu r 



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