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Thus hauing shewed what manner of thing the Poet is, and what the end of his worke, I will now conclude, that his office is so excellent, and his effect so necessarie to the well ordering of humane life, that whosoever would take from him his freedom of licence, and his liberty to vse fable for the furtherance of vertue, would in deede make a poore factious world, and giue tyrannie to ignorance.