[118] Malone and Langbaine have both observed, that our author elsewhere uses the same image, applied indeed to the very same person:
Subtle was got by our Albumazar,
That Alchemist by this Astrologer:
Here he was fashioned; and we may suppose,
He liked the fashion well, who wore the clothes.
[119] Dorset gave an instance of the honour in which he held Ben Jonson, by an excellent epilogue, upon the reviving of "Every Man in his Humour." When the speaker of the epilogue has proceeded a good way in the usual style of rallying the piece and author, he is interrupted by
Jonson's Ghost.
Hold, and give way, for I myself will speak:
Can you encourage so much insolence,
And add new faults still to the great offence