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FLATTERY. 



VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS. Campanula Speculum. 



" Nothing so much intoxicates the brain 

 As flatt'ry's smooth insinuating bane : 

 She on th' unguarded ear employs her art, 

 While vain self-love unlocks the yielding heart ; 

 And reason oft' submits, when both invade, 

 Without assaulted, and within betray'd." 



Fenton. 



The brilliant corollas of this little plant 

 have gained it the name of Venus's looking- 

 glass ; and on this account it is made the em- 

 blem of reflection as well as of flattery. 



" The eye sees not itself, 

 But by reflection from other things." 



Shakspeare. 



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