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HORACE

OF THE

Art of Poetry.

IF in a Picture (Piso) you should see,
A handsome Woman with a Fishes Tail,
Or a Man's Head upon a Horses Neck,
Or Limbs of Beasts of the most different kinds,
Cover'd with Feathers of all sorts of Birds,
Wou'd you not laugh, and think the Painter mad?
Trust me that Book is as ridiculous,

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