text:  Must "the _costume_ of our first parents had there been no other objection have excluded the 'State of Innocence' from the stage?" True Sir Charles Sedley and other "men of wit and fashion about town " were not well received when exhibiting themselves naked on a balcony overhanging a great thoroughfare; but then they were drunk and acted not only indecent but insulting nay threatening attitudes accompanied with abjurgations and blasphemies which was going injudiciously in advance of that age of refinement