MANNERS.

"HOW near to good is what is fair!

Which we no sooner see,

But with the lines and outward air

Our senses taken be.

Again yourselves compose,

And now put all the aptness on

Of Figure, that Proportion

Or Color can disclose;

That if those silent arts were lost,

Design and Picture, they might boast

From you a newer ground,

Instructed by the heightening sense

Of dignity and reverence

In their true motions found."

BEN JONSON

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