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Moreover, to deface the fable of Poets, and to vnweare their ornament, were to punish not onely their fables, but their faculties; for the verie turning of a nicenesse into fault, sheweth that men are not angry with the Poets for their fables, but with their owne ignorance, that perceiue not, that those fables be but but meanes to the ende. And in this point, philosophers themselues, who would seeme to bee the onely teachers of truth, do complaine, that the Poets haue oftentimes delivered trueth in such fancies, as men would not willingly beleeue, vnlesse couered with pleasant disguises.