I wonder if he knows, this Percy, that Lucian Davlin at present personates the dutiful brother of his fair lost love."
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
"The third party," said Rousseau, "is my other self-a being who is neither my wife, nor my mistress, nor my servant-maid, nor my mother, nor my daughter, but yet personates all these characters at once."
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
In this case the hen and chickens make a procession in front of a player who personates an old weeping woman.
"What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes"
Dorothy Canfield Fisher