He played typically domestics, rustics, and farm-labourers. He took the idealized Sicilian rustics and set them in Arcadia. Inter rusticos is Latin for "among rustics" or "illiterate persons". Quick's performances were at first as clowns, rustics, or comic servants. It was ornamented with vermiculated rustics and the entrance was formed by an elliptical arch. Wherever the messengers went, they saw the rustics engaged in some absurd task.