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Conducts you to Minerva's peaceful Quire, 

 Sons of her choice, and fharers of her fire, 

 Rife at the call of Art : expand your breaft, 

 Capacious to receive the mighty gueft,. 

 While, free from prejudice, your active eye 

 Preferves its firft unfullied purity ; 716 



While new to Beauty's charms, your eager foul 

 Drinks copious draughts of the delicious whole, 

 And Memory on her foft, yet lafting page, 

 Stamps the frefli image which fhall charm thro' 



age. 720 



LXX. When duly taught each Geometric rule, 



The Method J S 



young Pain- Approach with awful ftep the Grecian fchool, 



ter. 



Quofque fuo fovet igne, fibique optavit alumnos ! 

 Eja agite, atque animis ingentem ingentibus artem 

 Exercete alacres, dum ftrenua corda juventus 

 Viribus exftimulat vegetis, patienfque laborum eft ; 505 

 Dum vacua errorum, nulloque imbuta fapore 

 Pura nitet mens, & rerum fitibunda novarum, 

 Prasfentes haurit fpecies, atque humida fervat ! 

 OrdoStodio- ^ n Geometrali prius arte parumper adulti 



Signa antiqua fuper Graiorum addifcite formam ; 510 



rum. 



