i.iv. Alike with livelieft touch the Forms portray, 



The Quantity 



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ouch the 



Where the dim window half excludes the day ; 

 But, when expos'd in fuller light or air, 

 A brown and fober caft the group may bear. 

 LV. . Fly ev'ry Foe to elegance and grace, 



Things which / < 



aSeiiS- Each yawning hollow, each divided fpace ; c6c 



ing to be a- J 



Whatever is trite, minute, abrupt, or dry, 

 Where light meets fliade in flat equality ; 

 Each theme fantaftic, filthy, vile, or vain, 

 That gives the Soul difguft, or fenfes pain ; 

 Monfters of barbarous birth, Chimasras drear, 5 65 

 That pall with uglinefs, ,or awe with fear, 



LIV. Extremus labor. -In tabulas demifTa feneftris 



Quantitas Lu- 



S^ fucrit lux parva, color clariiTimus efto : 



Vividus at contra, obfcuruique, in lumine aperto. 405 

 LV. Qua? vacuis divifa cavis, vitare memento; 



Errores & Vi- 



Trita, minuta, firnul qua; non flipata dehifcunt, 

 Barbara, cruda oculis, rugis fucata colorum; 

 Luminis umbrarumque tonis jcqualia cuncla; 

 Foeda, crtienta, cruces, obfccena, ingrata, chimeras., 410 

 Sordidaque & mifera, & vel acuta, vel afpera tadtu j 

 dabunt formae, temere congella, ruinam, 



