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ART OF PAINTING. 



N O T E I. VERSE r. 

 Two Sifter Mufes, 'with alternate Jire, &c. 



MDU PILES opens his annotations here, with much 

 learned quotation from Tertullian, Cicero,, Ovid, and 

 Suidas, in order to fhew the affinity between the two Arts. 

 But it may perhaps be more pertinent to fubftitute in the 

 place of it all a iingle paffage, by Plutarch afcribed to Si- 

 monides, and which our Author, after having quoted Horace, 

 has literally tranflated, 'Zuygotylav m/ $EITOMENHN T>?X 

 rioiwiv, TToltjaiv tPe XITOXAN TYIV ^uygafiav. There is a Latin 

 line fomewhere to the fame purpofe, but I know not whether 

 antient or modern. 



Pbema 

 Eft Pictura loquens, mutum Pidlura Pbema. M. 



NOTE II. VERSE 33. 



Such powers, fuel praifes, heavn-born pair, belong 

 To magic colouring, and perfuajive fong. 

 That is to fay, they belong intrinfically and of right. Mr. 

 Wills, in the preface to his verfion of our Poet, firft detected 

 the falfe tranflations of Du Piles and Dryden, which fay, " fo 



I 2 much 



