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And all that chaos of fharp broken parts, 

 Where reigns Confufion, or whence Difcord flarts. 



Yet hear me, Youths ! while zealous ye forfake The L ^ r r - den 



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Detected raults, this friendly caution take, 570 Painter. 

 Shun all excefs ; and with true Wifdom deem,. 

 That Vice alike refides in each extreme. 



Know, if fupreme Perfection be your aim, 

 If claffic Praife your pencils hope to claim, 

 Your nobk outlines muft be chafte, yet free, 575 

 Connected all with ftudied Harmony ; 

 Few in their parts, yet thofe diftincl and great ; 

 Your Coloring boldly ftrong, yet foftly fweet. 



Lvn. 



The idea of a? 

 beautiful Pic- 

 ture. 



Jmplicitas aliis confundent mixtaque partes. 



Dumque fugis vitiofa, cave in contraria labi' 

 Damnamali; vitium extremis nam Temper inhacret. 415 



Pulchra grada fummo, graphidos flabilita vctuftse 

 Nobilibus fignis, funt grandia, diffita, pura,> 

 Terfa, velut minime confufa, labore ligata, 

 Partibus ex magnls paucifque effi&a, colorum 

 Corporibus diftinda feris, fed fcmper amici^. 420 



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Prudentia 19 

 Pidore. 



LVII. 



Elegantium 

 Idaea Tabuv 



laruni, 



