Juan. After the shipwreck, the men in the
boat, being wholly without provisions, cast lots to know which should be
killed as food for the rest, and the lot fell on Pedrillo, but those who
feasted on him most ravenously went mad.

His tutor, the licentiate Pedrillo,
Who several languages did understand.

Byron, _Don Juan_, ii. 25; see 76-79 (1819).

=Pedro=, "the pilgrim," a noble gentleman servant to Alinda (daughter of
Lord Alphonso).--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Pilgrim_ (1621).

_Pedro_ (_Don_), prince of Aragon.--Shakespeare, _Much Ado about
Nothing_ (1600).

_Pedro_ (_Don_), father of Leonora.--R. Jephson, _Two Strings to your
Bow_ (1792).

_Pedro_ (_Don_), a Portuguese nobleman, father of Donna Violante.--Mrs.
Centlivre, _The Wonder_ (1714).

_Pedro_ (_Dr._), whose full name was Dr. Pedro Rezio de Aguero, court
physician in the island of Barataria. He carried a whalebone rod in his
hand, and whenever any dish of food was set before Sancho Panza, the
governor, he touched it with his wand, that it might be instantly
removed, as unfit for the governor to eat. Partridges were "forbidden by
Hippoc'rat[^e]s," olla podridas were "most pernicious," rabbits were "a
sharp-haired diet," veal might not be touched, but "a few wafers, and a
thin slice or two of quince," might not be harmful.

The governor, being served with some beef hashed with onions, ...
fell to with more avidity than if he had been set down to Milan
godwits, Roman pheasants, Sorrento veal, Moron partridges, or green
geese of Lavajos; and turning to Dr. Pedro, he said, "Look you,
signor doctor, I want no danties, ... for I have always been used
to beef, bacon, pork, turnips and onions."--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_, II. iii. 10, 12 (1615).

=Peebles= (_Peter_), the pauper litigant. He is vain, litigious,
hard-hearted, and credulous; a liar, a drunkard, and a pauper. His
"ganging plea" is worthy of Hogarth.--Sir W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time,
George III.).

=Peecher= (_Miss_), a schoolmistress, in the flat country where Kent and
Surrey meet. "Small, shining, neat, methodical, and buxom was Miss
Peecher; cherry-cheeked and tuneful of voice. A little pincushion, a
little hussie, a little book, a little work-box, a little set of tables
and weights and measures, and a little woman all in one. She could write
a little essay on any subject exactly a slate long, and strictly
according to rule. If Mr. Br