Note 28 — Chapter II
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The fable here alluded to is entitled, A Painter who pleased everybody and nobody:
"So very like a painter drew, That every eye the picture knew.— His honest pencil touch'd with truth, And mark'd the date of age and youth;"
But see the consequence:
"In dusty piles his pictures lay, For no one sent the second pay."
Finding the result of truth so unpropitious to his fame and fortune, he changed his practice:
"Two bustos fraught with every grace, A Venus, and Apollo's, face He placed in view;—resolved to please, Whoever sat, he drew from these."
This succeeded to a tittle:
"Through all the town his art they prais'd, His custom grew, his price was rais'd."