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 LVIII. Know he that well begins has half achieved 



Advice to a 



ter His deftin'd work. Yet late ihall be retrieved 580 

 That time mifpent, that labour worfe than loft, 

 The young difciple, to his deareft coft, 

 Gives to a dull preceptor's tame defigns : 

 His tawdry -colors, his erroneous lines 

 Will Jto the foul that poifon rank .convey, 585 

 Which life's beft length fhall fail to purge away. 



Yet let not your untutor'd childhood ftrive 

 Of Nature's living charms the {ketch to give, 

 Till {kill'd her feparate features to defign 

 You know each mufcle's fite, and how they join. 



LVIH. OH* bene Ca2 pit> uti fa<fli jani fertur habere 



Pi*5lor Tyro. 



Dimidium; Pi<fturam ita nil fub limine primo 

 Ingrediens, puer offendit damnofius arti, 

 Quam varia .error um genera, ignorante magiftro, 

 Ex pravis libare Typis y mentemque veneno 

 Inficere, in toto quod non abftergitur aevo. 



Nee graphidos rudis artis adhuc cito qualiacu-nque 

 Corpora viva fuper fludium meditabitur, ante 

 Jllorum quam fymmetriarrij intornodia, formam 



