The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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A Painter shewing an ill Picture, bragg’d that he had finish’d it in a very little Time: you need not tell us of it, said Apelles, your Picture speaks it planly enough.

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Un Peintre montrant un mauvais Tableau, se vantoit de l’avoir achevé en fort peu de tems: tu n’as que faire, dit Apelles, de nous en avertir, ton Tableau le dit assez.