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The Poets therefore (who were before philosophers, and taught by nature, and by vse to conceiue either better or more delightful imaginations) were hence called the mouers, because they moued the affections by stroking to example, and to imitation. For example is the rightest precept: for when we be entreated with a likely shew of thinges to be done, and then seene by our imitation, immediately we are more perswaded to follow, then by the bare precept of reason: for rethorick persuadeth by words, poesie by images.