HE. In that case you don’t enjoy yourself very often. Apart from Legal and Philidor, the others don’t know what they’re doing. MYSELF. What of M. de Bissy? HE. Oh that one is to chess what Mlle. Clairon is to acting: they know about their respective playing all that can be learned. MYSELF. I see you’re hard to please. You forgive nothing but sublime genius. HE. True: in chess, checkers, poetry, eloquence, music and other nonsense of that kind, what’s the use of mediocrity? MYSELF. Not much use, I