When Jonson reintroduced the Aristophanic vehicle of comedy to carry his satire, though fashioned in a different style, he also re-voiced the Horatian satiric philosophy, promising realism,—such characters and actions as comedy would choose,
“When she would show an image of the times,
And sport with human follies, not with crimes.
Except we make ’hem such, by loving still
Our popular errors, when we know they’re ill.
I mean such errors, as you’ll all confess,
By laughing at them, they deserve no less:”[4]
A writer of the Restoration Period carries on the tradition:
“Some did all folly with just sharpness blame,
Whilst others laughed and scorned them into shame.