n to Venus that he
might "obtain the lady," and both their prayers were granted. Arcite won
the victory, according to his prayer, but, being thrown from his horse,
died; so Palamon, after all, "won the lady," though he did not win the
battle.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("The Knight's Tale," 1388).

This tale is taken from the _Le Teseide_ of Boccaccio.

_The Black Horse_, a drama by John Fletcher, is the same tale. Richard
Edwards has a comedy called _Palaemon and Arcyte_ (1566).

=Pale= (_The_), or THE ENGLISH PALE, a part of Ireland, including Dublin,
Meath, Carlow, Kilkenny and Louth.

=Pale Faces.= So the American Indians call the European settlers.

=Pale'mon=, son of a rich merchant. He fell in love with Anna, daughter of
Albert, master of one of his father's ships. The purse-proud merchant,
indignant at this, tried every means to induce his son to abandon such a
"mean connection," but without avail; so at last he sent him in the
_Britannia_ (Albert's ship) "in charge of the merchandise." The ship was
wrecked near Cape Colonna, in Attica; and although Pal[=e]mon escaped,
his ribs were so broken that he died almost as soon as he reached the
shore.

A gallant youth, Palemon was his name,
Charged with the commerce hither also came;
A father's stern resentment doomed to prove,
He came, the victim of unhappy love.

Falconer, _The Shipwreck_, i. 2 (1756).

=Pale'mon and Lavinia=, a poetic version of Boaz and Ruth. "The lovely
young Lavinia" went to glean in the fields of young Palemon, "the pride
of swains;" and Palemon, falling in love with the beautiful gleaner,
both wooed and won her.--Thomson, _The Seasons_ ("Autumn," 1730).

=Pales= (2 _syl._), god of shepherds and their flocks.--_Roman Mythology._

Pom[=o]na loves the orchard;
And Liber loves the vine;
And Pal[^e]s loves the straw-built shed,
Warm with the breath of kine.

Lord Macaulay, _Lays of Ancient Rome_ ("Prophecy of Capys," 1842).

=Pal'inode= (3 _syl._), a shepherd in Spenser's _Eclogues_. In ecl. v.
Palinode represents the Catholic priest. He invites Piers (who
represents the Protestant clergy) to join in the fun and pleasures of
May. Piers then warns the young man of the vanities of the world, and
tells him of the great degeneracy of pastoral life, at one time simple
and frugal, but now discontented and licentious. He concludes with the
fable of the kid and her dam. The fable is th