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 xxxvi. But where on both alike one equal light 45-5 



The Union of 



colours. Diffufive fpreads, the blending tints unite. 

 For breaking Colors thus (the antient phrafe 

 By Artifts us'd) fair Venice claims our praife ; 

 She, cautious to tranfgrefs fo fage a rule, 

 Confin'd to fobereft tints her learned fchool, 460 

 For tho' {he lov'd by- varied mode to join 

 Tumultuous crowds in one immenfe defign, 

 Yet there we ne'er condemn fuch hoftile hues 

 As cut the parts or glaringly confufe ; 

 In tinfel trim no foppifh form is dreft, 465 



Still flows in graceful unity the veft, 



xxxvi. Pluribus in folidis liquida fub luce propinquis, 



XJnioColorwm, 



Participes, mixtofque fimul decet elTe colores, 

 Hanc normam Veneti pidlores rite fequuti, 

 (Quas fuit antiquis corruptio difta colorum) 

 Cum plures opere in magno pofuere figuras, 

 Ne conjundta fimul variorum inimica colorum 

 Congeries formam implicitam, 5c concifa minutis 

 .Membra daret pannis, totam unamquamque flguram 

 A.ffirii, aut uno tantum veftire colore, 



