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from all their charms combin'd, with happy- 

 toil, 



Did ANNIBAL compofe his wond'rous ftyle : 760 

 O'er the fair fraud fo clofe a veil is thrown, 

 That every borrowed Grace becomes his own. 

 EXXI. if then to praife like theirs your fouls afpire, 



Nature and * 



P e X rfe e aArt. Catch from their works a portion of their fire ; 



Revolve their labors all, for all will teach, 765 

 Their finifti'd Picture, and their flighteft fketch. 

 Yet more than thefe to Meditation's eyes 

 Great Nature's felf redundantly fupplies : 

 Her prefence, beft of Models ! is the fource 

 Whence Genius draws augmented power and force; 

 Her precepts, beft of Teachers ! give the powers, 

 Whence Art, by pra&ice, to perfection foars. 



Fortimaeque bonis : Qups fedulus Hannibal omnes 535 



In propriam mentem, atque modum mira arte coegit. 

 LXXI. Plurimus inde labor tabulas imitandojuvabit 



Natura & Ex- 



perieotia Ar- Egrcgias, operumque typos ; fed plura docebit 



Natura ante oculos prasiens ; nam firmat & auget 



Vim genii, ex illaque artem experientia complet. 540 



Malta fuperfiko qnce commentaria dicent. 



