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EPIGRAM CXV.
[Your Flemish Painters, if you mark them well]
SPLENDEAT USU.
Your Flemish Painters, if you mark them well,
With most success on kitchen subjects dwell;
O'er painted jugs bid nature's polish pass;
And mimic saucepans rival real brass.
What cause such accurate brightness can produce?
—The general cause of accuracy—use.—
His history in his work the artist gives;
Between the pencil and the pot, he lives:
And if his picture, or his life you view,
'Tis, Animus in patinis—all through.
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