 This borrowing is discussed by George Burke Johnston in his "Poems of Ben Jonson" (1960), who points out that "the poem is not a translation, but a synthesis of scattered passages.Although only one conceit is not borrowed from Philostratus, the piece is a unified poem, and its glory is Jonson's.It has remained alive and popular for over three hundred years, and it is safe to say that no other work by Jonson is so well known."