Jonson also was excellent on work
within his mansions of erected wit.
For him it was defiance of the mob,
his adversaries mouthing at his call;
it was the shape of things held by the world
in various columns with the Latin scrolls
conspicuous like the Raleigh frontispiece.
I see Inigo Jones’s great arches
in my mind’s ‘s eye, his water-inky clouds,
the paraphernalia of a royal masque;
dung and detritus in the crazy streets,
the big coaches bellying in their skirts
pothole to pothole, and the men of fire,
the link-boys slouching and the rainy wind.
Masques
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