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But whereas some will say, that Poets moue vices rather then vertues, and bewray mens faults rather then they correct them, I answere, that Poets vse to mingled effects, and so to couer vices and vertues with an euen hand, as the painter mixt colours: nay rather they amplifie vertues, and set them in more glorious liuery, to allure men to imitation. For if the end of a tragedy be to shew what may be done, it will be lesse to make men do ill, then to make them thinke they may do good: and to thinke that, is the first step toward action.