From Elephantis, and dull Aretine
But coldly imitated. Then, my glasses
Cut in more subtle angles, to disperse
And multiply the figures, as I walk....
Jonson is the legitimate heir of Marlowe. The man who wrote, in Volpone:
for thy love,
In varying figures, I would have contended
With the blue Proteus, or the hornèd flood....
and
See, a carbuncle