Dant[^e], _Hell_, i. (1300).

_Panther_ (_The Spotted_), the Church of England. The "milk-white doe"
is the Church of Rome.

The panther, sure the noblest next the hind,
The fairest creature of the spotted kind;
Oh, could her inborn stains be washed away,
She were too good to be a beast of prey.

Dryden, _The Hind and the Panther_, i. (1687).

=Panthino=, servant of Antonio (the father of Protheus, one of the two
heroes of the play).--Shakespeare, _Two Gentlemen of Verona_ (1594).

=Panton=, a celebrated punster in the reign of Charles II.

And Panton, waging harmless war with words.

Dryden, _MacFlecknoe_, (1682).

=Panurge=, a young man, handsome and of good stature, but in very ragged
apparel when Pantag'ruel first met him on the road leading from
Charenton Bridge. Pantagruel, pleased with his person, and moved with
pity at his distress, accosted him, when Panurge replied, first in
German, then in Arabic, then in Italian, then in Biscayan, then in
Bas-Breton, then in Low Dutch, then in Spanish. Finding that Pantagruel
knew none of these languages, Panurge tried Danish, Hebrew, Greek,
Latin, with no better success. "Friend," said the prince, "can you speak
French?" "Right well," answered Panurge, "for I was born in Touraine,
the garden of France." Pantagruel then asked him if he would join his
suite, which Panurge most gladly consented to do, and became the fast
friend of Pantagruel. His great _forte_ was practical jokes. Rabelais
describes him as of middle stature, with an aquiline nose, very
handsome, and always moneyless. Pantagruel made him governor of
Salmygondin.--Rabelais, _Pantagruel_, iii. 2 (1545).

=Panza= (_Sancho_), of Adzpetia, the squire of Don Quixote de la Mancha;
"a little squat fellow, with a tun belly and spindle shanks" (pt. I. ii.
1). He rides an ass called Dapple. His sound common sense is an
excellent foil to the knight's craze. Sancho is very fond of eating and
drinking, is always asking the knight when he is to be put in possession
of the island he promised. He salts his speech with most pertinent
proverbs, and even with wit of a racy, though sometimes of rather a
vulgar savor.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605).

[Asterism] The wife of Sancho is called "Joan Panza" in pt. I., and
"Teresa Panza" in pt. II. "My father's name," she says to Sancho, "was
Cascajo, and I, by being your wife, am now called Teresa Panza, though
by right I should be c