In Spanish drama there are two jesters for every hero. Calder n provides holy Cyprian himself, the Spanish Faust, with a Mosc n and a Clarin. In the same way, the reactionary General von Radowitz had two comic adjutants in the Frankfurt parliament, his harlequin Lichnowski and his clown Vincke. But Pope s realm of dullness differs from that of the National-Zeitung in that there Dunce the second rules at present, as once did Dunce the first, while here the old Dunce, Dunce the first, still holds sway.
Marx Engels on Art and Literature