So John Rich called himself when he performed harlequin (1681–1761).
“On the one Folly sits, by some called Fun,
And on the other his arch-patron Lun.”
Churchill.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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