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 By mellowing feill thy Ground at diftance 



. . - . r i i n 



Free as the Air, and tranlient as its blait: ; 

 There all thy liquid Colors iweetly blend. 

 There all the treafures of thy Palette fpend, 52 

 And ev'ry form retiring to that ground 

 Of hue congenial to itfelf compound. 



The hand that colors well, muft color bright; 



1 T 1 r 1 i l - city of Colors 



Hope not that praiie to gam by iickly white ; 



But amply heap in front each fplendid dye, C2< XLVH. 



J Of Shadows. 



Then thin and light withdraw them from the eye, 

 Mix'd with that fimple unity of {hade, XLVIH 



11 r r i i r i The Piflure 



As all were from one fingle palette ipread. to . be f " ne 



Area, vel campus tabulas vaeus eflo. levifque XLV. 



Campus Ta- 



Abfcedat latus, liquideque bene undus amicis 



Tota ex mole coloribus, una five patella; 380 



Quasque cadimt retro in campum, confinia campo. 



Vividus efto color, nimio non pallidus albo ; , XLvrt -. . 



Color vivtdus 



Adverfifque locis ingeftus plurimus, ardens : 

 Sed leviter parceque datus vergentibus oris. 



Cun(Sla labore fimul coeant, velut umbra in eadem. ^8c IT 



J ^ Umbra. 



Tota fiet tabula ex una depifta patella. XLVIH. 



* Ex una Patella 



p fit Tabula. 



