Know Thyself

I have once again discovered on the Laudator Temporis Acti blog an entry worth relating.  I find it a fitting description of myself, a 'Scholler-Mountebank', a 'great Plagiarie of Tauerne-wit',  having 'taken paines to be an Asse, though not to be a Scholler'.

The likeness extends even down to the accompanying photograph*:

*  Photograph originally from -- https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicbEVUolt7wysSvpPzcLyRnxHR6Uiqnc3yOxjTpNEpvjf1Dry3v-5mFbzhEIl5LFGP0oETKcbov1u0XSrwjwMwhg3DMLbh0l2PgYW8gWSVhKXt0Y_i00_20na6pzjJdQm1kKjImL5nmMsj/s1600/j-j-grandville-les-savants-envoyerent-un-academicien-arme-de-ses-ouvrages.jpg