Book, Chapter

 1      1, I    | according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe
 2      2, II   |     invention of one of the late poets is proper, and doth well
 3      2, IV   |          fictions of the ancient poets; but yet that all the fables
 4      2, IV   |       fables and fictions of the poets were but pleasure and not
 5      2, IV   |         opinion. Surely of these poets which are now extant, even
 6      2, IV   |     customs, we are beholding to poets more than to the philosophers’
 7      2, X    |   distemper; and, therefore, the poets did well to conjoin music
 8      2, X    |     physician. And therefore the poets were clear-sighted in discerning
 9      2, X    |        have of them antiquaries, poets, humanists, statesmen, merchants,
10      2, X    |    deserve: well shadowed by the poets, in that they made AEsculapius
11      2, XXII |  countenance, and other. But the poets and writers of histories
12      2, XXII |           hic diadema: which the poets do speak satirically and
13      2, XXIII|         shall see it commonly in poets, that if they show their
14      2, XXIII|       shadows whereof are in the poets) in the description of torments
15      2, XXIII|         shall see it commonly in poets, that if they show their
16      2, XXIII|       shadows whereof are in the poets) in the description of torments
17      2, XXV  |    nature. So we see the heathen poets, when they fall upon a libertine
18      2, XXV  |         of their church were the poets; and the reason was because