...Peacock's Feather, by pressing our Eyes in either corner whilst we look the other way. ISAAC NEWTON Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air, Chuse a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, cre she change, the Cynthia of this minute. ALEXANDER...

...palms, and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 20...

...palms, and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it! Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, e'er she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 20...

...Sense defac'd. (11.23-25) The motif appears again in the lines on Cynthia in the Epistle to a Lady: Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in air. (11.17-18) And later in the poem it is employed more generally: Pictures like these, dear Madam, to...

...elusive models, though he emphasizes the airiness of his materials and skills appropriate to the task: Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the Rainbow, trick her off in Air, Chuse a firm Cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, die Cynthia of this minute. (17-20)...

...palms, and harps divine; Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute, Rufa,...