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p. 37.  An Epitaph : Come knock j'our heads against this stone. [MS. Book lxxxvi.]
Another: I was buried near this dyke. [MS. Book lxxxvii.]
Another: Here lies John Trot, the Friend of all mankind. [MS.

Book lxxxviii.]

p. 38.  My title as a Genius thus is prov'd. [MS. Book lxxxix.]
I, Rubens, am a Statesman and a Saint. [MS. Book xc]
To English Connoisseurs : You must agree that Rubens was a fool. [MS, Bookxci.]
Note. — There is just the same science in Lebrun or Rubens or even Vanloo that there is in Raphael or Michael Angelo, but not the same genius. Science is soon got; the other never can be acquired but must be born.
Swelled limbs with no outline that you can descry. [MS. Book xcii.]
A Pretty Epigram for the encouragement of those Who have paid

great sums in the Venetian and Flemish ooze. [MS. Book xciii.] These are the Idiots' chiefest arts. [MS. Book xciv.]

p. 39.  Raphael Sublime Majestic Graceful Wise. [MS. Book xcv.]
Learn the laborious stumble of a Fool. [MS. Book xcvi.]
If I e'er Grow to Man's Estate, [MS. Book xcvii.]
The cripple every step drudges & labours. [MS. Book xcviii.]
p. 40. Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise.
On the great encouragement given by English Nobility. [MS.

Book xcix.]

Give Pensions to the Learned Pig. [MS. Book c]
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought. [MS.

Book ci.]

p. 41.  On H the Pickthank : I write the rascal thanks, till he and I [MS. Book cii.]
Cromek speaks: I always take my judgement from a Fool. [MS.

Book ciii.]

When you look at a picture you always can see. [MS. Book civ.]
English Encouragement of Art, Cromek's opinions put into rhyme, [MS. Book cv.]
p. 42.  You say their Pictures well painted be. [MS, Book cvi.]
Sketch.
The Washerwoman's Song: I wash'd them out and wash'd them in.

[MS. Book cvii.]

p. 43.  When I see a Rubens Rembrandt Correggio. [MS. Book cviii.]
Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet. [MS. Book cix.]
p. 44.  Sketch (pencil). — For Marriage of Heaven and Hell — 'Nebuchadnezzar.'
Note. — Let a Man who has made a drawing gt) on & on & he will produce a Picture or Painting, but if he chooses to leave it before he has spoil'd it he will do a Better Thing,
p. 45.  Sketch. — For Gates of Paradise — I have said to corruption etc.
p. 46.  Sketch.— Murder. [See WMR. (k).]
Prose. — They say there is no straight line in nature . . . Machination, [Advt.]
Prose. — Delicate Hands & Heads will never appear While Titian &c, as in the Book of Moonlight, p. 5.