The "Arcadian Rhetorike" owes much to earlier critical treatises, but has a special interest from its references to Edmund Spenser, and Fraunce quotes from the "Faerie Queene" a year before the publication of the first books. In "Colin Clouts Come Home Again", Spenser speaks of Fraunce as Corydon, on account of his translations of Virgil's second eclogue. His poems are written in classical metres, and he was regarded by his contemporaries as the best exponent of Gabriel Harvey's theory. Even Thomas Nashe had a good word for "sweete Master Fraunce".