yet, my priests, pray you to God for Peerce ...
And if you have a "pater noster" spare,
Then you shal pray for saylers.

G. Gascoigne, _The Steele Glas_ (died 1577).

=Peery= (_Paul_), landlord of the Ship, Dover.

_Mrs. Peery_, Paul's wife.--G. Colman, _Ways and Means_ (1788).

=Peerybingle= (_John_), a carrier, "lumbering, slow, and honest; heavy,
but light of spirit; rough upon the surface, but gentle at the core;
dull without, but quick within; stolid, but so good. O, Mother Nature,
give thy children the true poetry of heart that hid itself in this poor
carrier's breast, and we can bear to have them talking prose all their
life long!"

_Mrs. [Mary] Peerybingle_, called by her husband "Dot." She was a little
chubby, cheery, young wife, very fond of her husband, and very proud of
her baby; a good housewife, who delighted in making the house snug and
cozy for John, when he came home after his day's work. She called him "a
dear old darling of a dunce," or "her little goosie." She sheltered
Edward Plummer in her cottage for a time, and got into trouble; but the
marriage of Edward with May Fielding cleared up the mystery, and John
loved his little Dot more fondly than ever.--C. Dickens, _The Cricket on
the Hearth_ (1845).

=Peg.= _Drink to your peg._ King Edgar ordered "that pegs should be
fastened into drinking-horns at stated distances and whoever drank
beyond his peg at one draught should be obnoxious to a severe
punishment."

I had lately a peg-tankard in my hand. It had on the inside a row
of eight pins, one above another, from bottom to top. It held two
quarts, so that there was a gill of liquor between peg and peg.
Whoever drank short of his pin or beyond it, was obliged to drink
to the next, and so on till the tankard was drained to the
bottom.--Sharpe, _History of the Kings of England_.

=Peg-a-Ramsey=, the heroine of an old song. Percy says it was an indecent
ballad. Shakespeare alludes to it in his _Twelfth Night_, act ii. sc. 3
(1614).

James I. had been much struck with the beauty and embarrassment of
the pretty Peg-a-Ramsey? as he called her.--Sir W. Scott.

=Peg'asus=, the winged horse of the Muses. It was caught by Bellerophon,
who mounted thereon, and destroyed the Chimaera; but when he attempted to
ascend to heaven, he was thrown from the horse, and Pegasus mounted
alone to the skies, where it became the constellation of the same n