But hear that arch imposter Old Patridge of more modern date whose gulleries appear to have no end.

Molière who was always a close and keen observer of everything that transpired around him, seized upon the name "Tartuffe" as suitable to the hypocritical imposter in his comedy.

This Lambert Simnel seems to have been a youth of some talent, and to have filled his ugly imposter's rôle with as much grace as it admitted of Bacon, in his history of the reign, tells us that "he was a comely youth, not without some extraordinary dignity of grace and aspect."