on Don Quixote 6

On page 476 Sanson the bachelor says, "That is true, but it is one thing to write as a poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth."

This is almost the exact same thing Sidney said in his defense, except he mentioned how a philosopher tries to moralize but fails because no one can understand him. The poet can write about how things should be and make it so people can understand it.

Talk about intertextuality!