For hee that shall a perfect poet bee,
Must first bee bred out of Medusae’s bloud,
He must be chast and vertuous, as was shee
Who to her powre the Ocean god withstoode:
To th’ende also his doome be iust and good,
Hee must, as shee, looke rightly with one eye
Truth to regarde, and write nothing awrye.[1713]
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In courage eke he must be like a horse,
He may not feare to register the right: