s]30 a year.--_Sussex Archaeological Collections_,
iii. 172.

=Parson Bate=, a stalwart choleric, sporting parson, editor of the
_Morning Post_ in the latter half of the eighteenth century. He was
afterwards Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart.

When Sir Henry Bate Dudley was appointed an Irish dean, a young
lady of Dublin said, "Och! how I long to see our dane! They say ...
he fights like an angel."--_Cassell's Magazine_ ("London Legends,"
iii.)

=Parson Collins=, shrewd backwoodsman, ready for fight or prayer. He
suffers at the hands of desperadoes, but is dauntless, and always gets
the better of his partner in a trade. His white mule Ma'y Jane, is the
only creature that outwits him, and that only at fence-corners.--Octave
Thanet, _Expiation_ (1890).

=Parson Runo= (_A_), a simple-minded clergyman, wholly unacquainted with
the world; a Dr. Primrose, in fact. It is a Russian household phrase,
having its origin in the singular simplicity of the Lutheran clergy of
the Isle of Runo.

=Parson Trulliber=, a fat clergyman, slothful, ignorant, and intensely
bigoted.--Fielding, _Joseph Andrews_ (1742).

=Parsons= (_Walter_), the giant porter of King James I. (died
1622).--Fuller, _Worthies_ (1662).

=Parsons' Kaiser= (_The_), Karl IV., of Germany, who was set up by Pope
Clement VI., while Ludwig IV. was still on the throne. The Germans
called the pope's _prot['e]g['e]_ "_pfaffen kaiser_."

=Parthe'nia=, the mistress of Arg[)a]lus.--Sir Philip Sidney, _Arcadia_
(1580).

_Parthenia_, Maidenly Chastity personified. Parthenia is sister of
Agnei'a (3 _syl._), or wifely chastity, the spouse of Encra't[^e]s, or
temperance. Her attendant is Er'ythre, or modesty. (Greek,
_parth[)e]nia_, "maidenhood.")--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_,
x. (1633).

=Parthen'ope= (4 _syl._), one of the three syrens. She was buried at
Naples. Naples itself was anciently called Parthenop[^e], which name was
changed to _Neap'olis_ ("the new city") by a colony of Cumaeans.

By dead Parthenope's dear tomb.

Milton, _Comus_, 879 (1634).

Loitering by the sea
That laves the passionate shores of soft Parthenop[^e].

Lord Lytton, _Ode_, iii. 2 (1839).

(The three syrens were Parthenop[^e], Lig[=e]a, and Leucos'ia, not
_Leucoth'ea_, _q.v._)

_Parthenope_ (4 _syl._), the damsel beloved by Prince Volscius.--Duke of
Buckingham, _The Rehearsal_ (1671).

=Parthen'ope of Nap