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Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in the heaven above.

—EXODUS

The soul of man, therefore, desiring to learn what manner of things these are, casteth her eyes upon objects akin to herself, whereof none sufficeth. And then it is that she saith, With the Lord and with the things whereof I spoke, there is nothing in that likeness; what then is it like? This is the question, oh son of Dionysius, that is the cause of all evils—or rather the travail wherein the soul travaileth about it.

—PLATO¹

Following false copies of the good, that no Sincere fulfilment of their promise make.

—DANTE

In hand she boldly took To make another like the former dame, Another Florimell in shape and look So lively and so like that many it mistook.

—SPENSER

¹ Some think it wrongly attributed to him.