f
martyrdom to their profession.--See Warton, _History of English Poetry_
(1781).

=Pen'lake= (_Richard_), a cheerful man, both frank and free, but married
to Rebecca, a terrible shrew. Rebecca knew if she once sat in St.
Michael's chair (on St. Michael's Mount, in Cornwall), that she would
rule her husband ever after; so she was very desirous of going to the
mount. It so happened that Richard fell sick, and both vowed to give six
marks to St. Michael if he recovered. Richard did recover, and they
visited the shrine; but while Richard was making the offering, Rebecca
ran to seat herself in St. Michael's chair; but no sooner had she done
so, than she fell from the chair, and was killed in the fall.--Southey,
_St. Michael's Chair_ (a ballad, 1798).

=Penniless= (_The_), Maximilian I., emperor of Germany (1459, 1493-1519).

=Penniman= (_Wolfert_). Young captain of the Mayga in _Outward Bound_.--W.
T. Adams (Oliver Optic).

=Penny= (_Jock_), a highwayman.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time,
George II.).

=Penruddock= (_Roderick_), a "philosopher," or rather a recluse, who spent
his time in reading. By nature gentle, kind-hearted, and generous, but
soured by wrongs. Woodville, his trusted friend, although he knew that
Arabella was betrothed to Roderick, induced her father to give his
daughter to himself, the richer man; and Roderick's life was blasted.
Woodville had a son, who reduced himself to positive indigence by
gambling. Sir George Penruddock was the chief creditor. Sir George
dying, all his property came to his cousin, Roderick, who now had ample
means to glut his revenge on his treacherous friend; but his heart
softened. First, he settled all "the obligations, bonds, and mortgages,
covering the whole Woodville property," on Henry Woodville, that he
might marry Emily Tempest; and next, he restored to Mrs. Woodville "her
settlement, which in her husband's desperate necessity, she had resigned
to him;" lastly, he sold all his own estates, and retired again to a
country cottage to his books and solitude.--Cumberland, _The Wheel of
Fortune_ (1779).

=Pentap'oliff=, "with the naked arm," king of the Garaman'teans, who
always went to battle with his right arm bare. Alifanfaron, emperor of
Trap'oban, wished to marry his daughter, but, being refused, resolved to
urge his suit by the sword. When Don Quixote saw two flocks of sheep
coming along the road in opposite directions, he told Sancho Panza they
wer