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pun, as the countryman described his nightingale, that it is 'vox et præterea nihil,' ' a sound, and nothing but a sound.' On the contrary, one may represent true wit by the description which Aristenetus makes of a fine woman; when she is dressed she is beautiful, when she is undressed she is beautiful; or as Mercerus has translated it more emphatically, Induitur formosa est : exuitur, ipsa for

ma est*.

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* Dressed she is beautiful, undressed she is Beauty's self.

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