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The nature of a Poet is not so to speake what men haue done, but what might be done: and should be done: that thereby they might allure and mooue men to vse their vttermost endeuours in well doing; and to carrie them vnto a more perfect imitation of vertue. For as for old writers of morality, those hauing seene men, and the order of the world, describe thinges as they haue been, and therefore be commonly thought to abuse or deforme that they touch: but Poets, as men that are workemen of the minde, shew what ought to be, and what may be, and last of all what is: and in that comparatiue consideration they are more well allowed than the other.