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Who mall our pigmy Pencils arm with might 

 To feize the Soul and force her into fight ? 320 

 Jove, Jove alone ; his highly- fa vor'd few 

 Alone can call fuch miracles to view. 



But this to Rhet'ric and the Schools I leave, 

 Content from antient lore one rule to give, 

 " By tedious toil no Paffions are expreft, 325 



" His hand who feels them ftrongeft paints them 

 beft." 



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Yet fhall the Mufe with all her force profcribe Gothic o 



A ment to be 



Of bafe and barbarous forms that Gothic tribe 



Pingere pofTe animam, atque oculis praebere videndam, 



" Hoc opusy bic labor eft. Pauci, quos aquus amavit 



*' y u pfittr> #ut ardens evexit ad eethera virtus, 



4 Dis Jimiles potuere" manu miracula tanta. 235 



Hos ego Rhetoribus tradtandos defero ; tantum 

 Egregii antiquum memorabo fophifma magiflrij 

 " Verius affeffius animi vigor exprimit ardens y 

 " Bolliciti nimlum quam fedula cur a labor is. 



Denique nil fapiat Gothorum barbara trito 240 xxx. 



Gothorum 



Ornamenta modo, faeclorum & monftra malorum : ornamema 



iiigieada. 

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