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So Labor's vain extortion ne'er achieves 645 



That grace fupreme which willing Genius gives. 



Tims tho 1 to pains and practice much we owe, 



Tho' thence each line .obtains its eafy flow* do e ? fil y whatr 



J you have coa- 



Yet let thofe pains, that practice ne'er be jofn'd, 

 To blunt the native vigor of the mind. 650 



When fhines the Morn, when in recruited courie~, L * VL . 



The Morning 

 i r ' n i i* n r rao ^ P'P er: 



The ipints now, devote their active force for work. 



To every nicer part of thy defiign,. 



But pafs no idle day without a line-: . Eve^plydo 



ibmething. 



And wandering oft the crouded ftreets along, 6 c c LXVUI. 



-^ The Method 



The native geftures of the pafling throng 



fions. 



Attentive mark, for many a cafual- grace r 

 Th'expreffive lines of each impaiiion'd face 



Sic nunquam,. nimio quae funt extorta labore,, 

 Et pid;a invito genio, nunquara ilia placebunt- 



Vera fuper meditando, manus labor improbus adfit y Quod 



^ _ . j. . r f concers 



Nec taaien obtunaat genium, mentilque vigorem. 405 Manu com- 



proba. 



Optima nofirorum pars matutina dier-um. L XVI. 



Matutinum 

 __..,. ... . . 111- Tempus La- 



Dimcili hanc leitur notiorem impsnde labon. bori aptum. 



LXVII. 

 Nulla dies abeat, quin linea duda fuperfit : bS^uSfa 



Perque vias, vultus hominum, motufque notaBis LXVIII. 



inob- 



Libertate fua proprios, pofitafque figuras 47^ s ati&Datu * 



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