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Touching the accusation of Lyes, which some of the serious call upon Poets, that they are but garmenters of untruth, we answere, that the Poets do not lie, though they feigne; for they feigne for ensample, not for deceit: they make new thinges speak, not to hold men in errors, but to instruct them in vertue. In which respect we may well terme them not liars, because in that which they propound they propose nothing but such things as are possible and probable, and which may be lawfullly imagined for the good of man.