...of poets have chosen verse as their fittest raiment. The effects of poetry are the purifying of wit, enriching of memory, enabling of judgment, and enlarging of conceit, which commonly we call learning. The end of all earthly learning is virtuous action. In this most excellent work poetry is the most...

...enabling of judgement, and enlarging of conceit, which commoly we cal learning, under what name so ever it come forth, or to what immediate end soever it be directed, the finall end is, to lead and draw us to as high a perfection, as our degenerate soules made worse by...