guild of the
doctors (_Medici_), as every Florentine enrolled himself in one of these
charitable societies. The Medici family became great money-lenders, and
their shield with the "balls" or "pills" was placed over the doors of
their agents.

=Paynim Harper= (_The_), referred to by Tennyson in the _Last Tournament_,
was Orpheus.

Swine, goats, asses, rams and geese
Troop'd round a Paynim harper once ...
Then were swine, goats, asses, geese
The wiser fools, seeing thy Paynim bard
Had such a mastery of his mystery
That he could harp his wife up out of hell.

Tennyson, _The Last Tournament_ (1859).

=Peace= (_Prince of the_), Don Manuel Godoy, born at Badajoz. So called
because he concluded the "peace of Basle" between the French and Spanish
nations in 1795 (1767-1851).

_Peace_ (_The Father of_), Andrea Doria (1469-1560).

_Peace_ (_The Surest Way to_). Fox, afterwards bishop of Hereford, said
to Henry VIII., _The surest way to peace is a constant preparation for
war_. The Romans had the axiom, _Si vis pacem, para bellum_. It was said
of Edgar, surnamed "the Peaceful," king of England, that he preserved
peace in those turbulent times "by being always prepared for war"
(reigned 959-975.)

=Peace Thirlmore=, ambitious daughter of a scholarly recluse near New
Haven. She marries a clever student, who becomes a sensational preacher,
then farmer, then an army officer. His wife passes through many stages
of belief and emotion, emerging at last into the sunshine.--W. M. Baker,
_His Majesty, Myself_ (1879).

=Peace at any Price.= M['e]zeray says of Louis XII., that he had such
detestation of war that he rather chose to lose his duchy of M[)i]lan
than burden his subjects with a war-tax.--_Histoire de France_ (1643).

=Peace of Antal'cidas=, the peace concluded by Antalcidas, the Spartan,
and Artaxerxes (B.C. 387).

=Peace of God=, a peace enforced by the clergy on the barons of
Christendom, to prevent the perpetual feuds between baron and baron
(1035).

=Peach'um=, a pimp, patron of a gang of thieves, and receiver of their
stolen goods. His house is the resort of thieves, pickpockets, and
villains of all sorts. He betrays his comrades when it is for his own
benefit, and even procures the arrest of Captain Macheath.

_Mrs. Peachum_, wife of Peachum. She recommends her daughter Polly to be
"somewhat nice in her deviations from virtue."

_Polly Peachum_, daughter of