Epicene or Epicoene?

I'm very interested in the ways that the commodification of beauty and nobility are undermined by the action of the play. It seems to me that Jonson is highlighting the emptiness and falseness of purchasing things that are traditonally associated with aethetic or cultural ideals. Is the purpose of this comic send-up to attack the Early Modern equivalent of 'new money'? If so, doesn't Jonson fall into this catagory himself? Is he attacking his own social station?

My second question focuses on the fairly explicit references in the first scene to Clerimont's homosexual relationship with his boy. Would this sort of direct treatment of nontraditional sexuality have been a shock to an Early Modern audience? Would it alienate Clerimont from that audience? Would the homosexual undertones, throughout the play, have disturbed the audience or would they have found it comical?