. "To disallow this improvement in the most ancient of arts is but to admit that Adam and Eve??s aprons were the gayest garments, and the shepherd??s tent the best housing. 25 Poetry, he believes, may be an Art in our vulgar, and that very methodical and commendable: indeed, the whole aim of the author of the Arte of English Poesie is to bring order into the literary chaos, and to show, in Nash??s wo" . . .