l were [pounds]10 a year for
food, books, board, clothes and tuition.--Foote, _Taste_ (1753).

=People= (_Man of the_), Charles James Fox (1749-1806).

=Pepin= (_William_), a White Friar and most famous preacher at the
beginning of the sixteenth century. His sermons, in eight volumes
quarto, formed the grand repertory of the preachers of those times.

=Pepita=, Spanish beauty of whom the poet sings:

I, who dwell over the way
Watch where Pepita is hid,
Safe from the glare of the day,
Like an eye under its lid;
Over and over I say--
Name like the song of a bird,
Melody shut in a word--
"Pepita!"

Frank Dempster Sherman, _Madrigals and Catches_ (1887).

=Pepperpot= (_Sir Peter_), a West Indian epicure, immensely rich,
conceited and irritable.--Foote, _The Patron_ (1764).

=Peppers.= (See WHITE HORSE OF THE PEPPERS.)

=Peps= (_Dr[TN-81] Parker_), a court physician who attended the first Mrs.
Dombey on her death-bed. Dr. Peps always gave his patients (by mistake,
of course), a title, to impress them with the idea that his practice was
exclusively confined to the upper ten thousand.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and
Son_ (1846).

=Perceforest= (_King_), the hero of a prose romance "in Greek." The MS. is
said to have been found by Count William of Hainault in a cabinet at
"Burtimer" Abbey, on the Humber; and in the same cabinet was deposited a
crown, which the count sent to King Edward. The MS. was turned into
Latin by St. Landelain, and thence into French under the title of _La
Tres Elegante Deliceux Melliflue et Tres Plaisante Hystoire du Tres
Noble Roy Perceforest_ (printed at Paris in 1528).

(Of course, this pretended discovery is only an invention. An analysis
of the romance is given in Dunlop's _History of fiction_.)

He was called "Perceforest," because he dared to _pierce_, almost alone,
an enchanted _forest_, where women and children were most evilly
treated. Charles IX., of France, was especially fond of this romance.

=Perch=, messenger in the house of Mr. Dombey, merchant, whom he adored,
and plainly showed by his manner to the great man: "You are the light of
my eyes," "You are the breath of my soul."--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_
(1846).

=Perche Notary= (_A_), a lawyer who sets people together by the ears, one
who makes more quarrels than contracts. The French proverb is, _Notaire
du Perche, qui passe plus d'['e]challiers que de contrat_.