er of
Tartuffe, whom she looks on as a saint. In the adaptation of Moli[`e]re's
comedy by Isaac Bickerstaff, Mde. Parnelle is called "old Lady Lambert;"
her son, "Sir John Lambert;" and Tartuffe, "Dr. Cantwell."--Moli[`e]re,
_Tartuffe_ (1664); Bickerstaff, _The Hypocrite_ (1768).

[Asterism] _The Nonjuror_, by Cibber (1706), was the quarry of
Bickerstaff's play.

=Parody= (_Father of_), Hippo'nax of Ephesus (sixth century B.C.).

=Parol'les= (3 _syl._), a boastful, cowardly follower of Bertram, count of
Rousillon. His utterances are racy enough, but our contempt for the man
smothers our mirth, and we cannot laugh. In one scene the bully is taken
blindfolded among his old acquaintances, whom he is led to suppose are
his enemies, and he villifies[TN-64] their characters to their faces in
most admired foolery.--Shakespeare, _All's Well that Ends Well_ (1598).

He [_Dr. Parr_] was a mere Parolles in a pedagogue's wig.--_Noctes
Ambrosianae._

(For similar tongue-doughty heroes, see BASILISCO, BESSUS, BLUFF,
BOBADIL, BOROUGHCLIFF, BRAZEN, FLASH, PISTOL, PYRGO, POLINICES,[TN-65]
SCARAMOUCH, THRASO, VINCENT DE LA ROSA, etc.)

=Parpaillons= (_King of the_), the father of Gargamelle, "a jolly pug and
well-mouthed wench," who married Grangousier "in the vigor of his age,"
and became the mother of Gargantua.--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 3 (1533).

=Parr= (_Old_). Thomas Parr, we are told, lived in the reign of ten
sovereigns. He married his second wife when he was 120 years old, and
had a child by her. He was a husbandman, born at Salop, in 1483, and
died 1635, aged 152.

=Parricide= (_The Beautiful_), Beatrice Cenci, who is said to have
murdered her father for the incestuous brutality with which he had
treated her (died 1599).

Shelley has a tragedy on the subject, called _The Cenci_ (1819).

=Parsley Peel=, the first Sir Robert Peel. So called from the great
quantity of printed calico with the parsley-leaf pattern manufactured by
him (1750-1830).

=Parson Adams=, a simple-minded country clergyman of the eighteenth
century. At the age of 50 he was provided with a handsome income of
[pounds]23 a year (nearly [pounds]300 of our money).--Fielding, _Joseph
Andrews_ (1742).

Timothy Burrell, Esq., in 1715, bequeathed to his nephew Timothy, the
sum of [pounds]20 a year, to be paid during his residence at the
university, and to be continued to him till he obtained some preferment
worth at least [pound