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 1 Praise|         that herd of gods of the poets’ making, and those few of
 2 Praise|           all that rabble of the poets’ gods, with which heaven
 3 Praise|     present with it, and, as the poets’ gods were wont to assist
 4 Praise|       you give any credit to the poets, or their followers the
 5 Praise|        Homer and the rest of the poets, you would find them all
 6 Praise|          from Helicon, since the poets so often invoke them upon
 7 Praise|     could look round him, as the poets say Jupiter was now and
 8 Praise|     Plato placed the raptures of poets, prophets, and lovers among
 9 Praise|           fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant
10 Praise| otherwise perish, unless, as the poets fancied of Atlas that he
11 Praise|       they have scraped from the poets; and in the next place,
12 Praise|         outrageous that the very poets feigned it came from the