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If it be objected, that the Poets allure men with pleasures, to those things which are lesse good, we say that their pleasures be instruments of good things: for no man taketh pleasure in a vertue, but because the vertue itself is pleasant: if therefore a Poet set foorth the pleasures of vertue, he doth but the more encourage men to the practice thereof. And if he vse pleasures in shewing the punishment of vice, he doth but shew the contrarie, that is, he sheweth the end of vice to be miserable, and thereby driues men from it.