Note 226 — INTRODUCCIÓN X (continued 4)

«And for mine owne part, I am of opinion that Writers may as well be borne withall, as Painters, who now and then paint those actions that are absurd. As Timomachus painted Medea killing her children; Orestes, murthering his mother Theo, and Parrasius; Ulyses counterfeited madnes, and Cherephanes, the immodest imbracements of women wit men which the spectators beholding, doe not laudare rem, sed artem; not commend the matter which is exprest in imitation, but the Art and skill of the workeman, wich hath so lively represented wat is proposed. In like sort, when we reade the filthy actions of whores, their wicked conditions, and beastly behaviour, we are neither to approve them as good, nor to imbrace them as honest, but to commend the Authors judgement in expressing his Argument so fit and pat to their dispositions» (Pág. 7).