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xi. Fair in the front in all the blaze of light, 180 



The principal 



The Hero of thy piece fhould meet the fight, 

 Supreme in beauty ; lavifli here thine Art, 

 XII And bid him boldly from the canvas ftart ; 

 gures. While round that fov'reign form th' inferior train 

 In groups collected fill the pidtur'd plain : 185 



Fill, but not croud ; for oft fome open fpace 

 Muft part their ranks, and leave a vacant place, 

 Left artlefsly difpers'd the fever'd Crew 

 At random rufh on our bewilder'd view ; 

 Or parts with parts in thick confufion bound, 199 

 Spread a tumultuous Chaos o'er the ground. 



XI Prima figurarum, feu princeps dramatis, ultrb 



ceps. Profiliat media in tabula, fub lumine primo 



Pulchrior ante alias, reliquis nee operta figuris. 

 x. Agglomerata fimul fint membra, ipfasque figurae 



Figurarum 



giobi feu cu Stipentur, circumque globos locus ufque vacabit; 

 Ne, male difperfis dum vifus ubique figuris 

 Dividitur, cundlifque operis fervente tumultu 

 Partibus implicitis, crepitans confufio furgat. 



