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SPOKEN BY VENUS ON SEEING HER STATUE DONE BY PRAXITELES by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "ANCHISES, PARIS, AND ADONIS TOO,"
Last Line: BUT WHERE HAS THIS PRAXITELES BEEN PRYING?
Subject(s): PRAXITELES (370-330 B.C.);STATUES;

Anchises, Paris, and Adonis too,
Have seen me naked, and expos'd to view;
All these I freely own, without denying:
But where has this Praxiteles been prying?



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