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Ma'm, architecture you're not skill'd in,
I don't approve your way of building;
In this there's nothing like design,
Pray learn the use of Gunter's line.

— Christopher Smart Fables (1750)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Gunter's line = the rule of proportion introduced by Edmund Gunter

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Then comes rosy health from her cottage of thatch,
Where never physician hath lifted the latch.

Too hard for any frog's digestion,
To have his froghood call'd in question!

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Behind him came Health from her cottage of thatch,
Where never physician had lifted the latch.

For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

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Glorious the sun in mid-career;
Glorious th' assembled fires appear.

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