Note 276 — The Table. (continued 2)

"A Skilfull Painter such rare pictures drew, That every man his workemanship admir'd:

So neere the life in beautie, forme and hew, As if dead Art 'gainst Nature had conspir'd. Painter, sayes one, thy wife's a pretty woman, I muse such ill-shapt children thou hast got, Yet mak'st such pictures as their likes makes no man, I prethee tell the cause of this thy lot? Quoth he, I paint by day when it is light, And get my children in the darke at night."—

Taylor's Sculler, 1612 (Works, 1630, iii. 22).