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I always take my judgment from a Fool Because his Judgment is so very Cool ; Not prejudiced by feelings great or small, Amiable state ! he cannot feel at all.

MS. Book, p. 41. Gil. i. 208. EY i. 223. 1 judgment] judgments Gil., EY. 2 Because. . . Cool] Because I know he always judges cool. MS. Book 1st rdg. del. judgment is] judgments are EY. 3 or] and Gil. 4 Amiable state] Because we know MS. Book 1st rdg. del.

When you look at a picture, you always can see If a Man of Sense has Painted he. Then never flinch, but keep up a jaw About freedom, and Jenny sink awa'. As when it smells of the lamp, we can Say all was owing to the Skilful Man ; For the smell of water is but small : So e'en let Ignorance do it all.

MS. Book, p. 41. Only in EY i. 223. 4 Jenny sink awa'] Blake's purposely grotesque spelling of 'Je ne sais quoi.' Cp. 'menny wouver' in the next piece. That Blake probably read French with ease may be inferred from his quotation of a passage from Voltaire's Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations, copied with indignant comment on p. [cxxvii] of his copy of Reynolds' Discourses, 5 we] all MS. Book 1st rdg. del., EY. Rh