scurra

Byron uses the word 'scurra', which generally means a "parasite," in its other sense of a "buffoon."

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

Italians and the Spaniards, signifying mimus, scurra, joculator — a mimic, a jester, a player of tricks.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Quod Philosophi non remunerentur, cum scurra et ineptus ob insulsum jocum saepe praemium reportet, inde fit, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Ex quorum numero, scurra ille fuit, qui rhythmis aliquot, in gentis nostræ contumeliam, Germanica lingua editis, nomen suum immortali dedecori consecrauit.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Ex quorum numero, scurra ille fuit, qui rhythmis aliquot, in gentis nostr� contumeliam, Germanica lingua editis, nomen suum immortali dedecori consecrauit.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

In answer to a question from Hegius, Agricola goes on to distinguish the words mimus, histrio, persona, scurra, nebulo; with quotations from Juvenal and Gellius.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

This is the Harlequin Calicurgus (C. scurra, LEP.), who sports the same gaudy costume as the first and is almost of the same size.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Vincti erant preterea pedes auro, manus etiam catenis aureis; nec collo aureum vinculum deerat, quod scurra Persicus præferebat.

Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824

Islandorum incessunt, responsio, quam merentur, parata esse debet: Ex quorum numero, scurra ille fuit, qui rhythmis aliquot, in gentis nostræ contumeliam, Germanica lingua editis, nomen suum immortali dedecori consecrauit.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584

[Footnote 379: Decoratus is called by Boethius, who was his colleague in some office, 'a wretched buffoon and informer '(nequissimus scurra et delator.

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872