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Muse: a guiding spirit; source of inspiration.
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colour: 1) paint; 2) false pretense. his: its. colour: hue. fix'd: unchangeable; native.
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pencil: painter's brush. lay: lay in, as with an artist's brush.
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intermix'd: adulterated.
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dumb: mute.
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of: by.
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office: function.