Thersites

An anonymous interlude called Thersites, and written in 1537, deserves mention as the oldest dramatic piece in English, with characters purporting to be borrowed from secular history.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872

Among other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

Waverley 2004

He is a wizened old nondescript with satyr-like beard, a kind of Thersites, who is understood to have established, from the days of Abdelkader and "for certain reasons," his headquarters at Gafsa, where he sips absinthes past all computation, exercising his wit upon everybody and everything with a fluent and rather diverting pessimism.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Among other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

The Waverley 1877

In "Thersites," the author, by the epilogue, has noted the precise time of its being written, in mentioning the birth of Prince Edward (afterwards King Edward VI.), which happened the 12th of August 1537, and invoking the Almighty to save the "Queen, lovely Lady Jane," who is supposed to have died the second day after that event.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

Among other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

Among other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

Among other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801