Le Perche, qui se trouve partag['e] entre les d['e]partements de
l'Orne et d'Eure-et-Loir, est un contr['e]e fort bois['e]e, dans
laquelle la plupart des champs sont entour['e]s de haies dans
lesquelles sont m['e]nag['e]es certaines ouvertures propres [`a]
donner passage aux pi['e]tons seulement, et que l'on nomme
_['e]challiers_.--_Hilaire le Gai._

=Percinet=, a fairy prince, in love with Graciosa. The prince succeeds in
thwarting the malicious designs of Grognon, the step-mother of the
lovely princess.--_Percinet and Graciosa_ (a fairy tale).

=Percival= (_Sir_), the third son of Sir Pellinore, king of Wales. His
brothers were Sir Aglavale and Sir Lamorake Dornar, usually called Sir
Lamorake de Galis (_Wales_). Sir Tor was his half-brother. Sir Percival
caught a sight of the Holy Graal after his combat with Sir Ector de
Maris (brother of Sir Launcelot), and both were miraculously healed by
it. Cr['e]tien de Troyes wrote the _Roman de Perceval_ (before 1200), and
Menessier produced the same story in a metrical form. (See PARZIVAL.)

Sir Percivale had a glimmering of the Sancgreall and of the maiden
that bare it, for he was perfect and clean. And forthwith they
were both as whole of limb and hide as ever they were in their life
days. "O, mercy!" said Sir Percival, "what may this mean?" ... "I
wot well," said Sir Ector ... "it is the holy vessel, wherein is a
part of the holy blood of our blessed Saviour; but it may not be
seen but by a perfect man."--Pt. iii. 14.

Sir Percival was with Sir Bors and Sir Galahad, when the visible Saviour
went into the consecrated wafer which was given to them by the bishop.
This is called the achievement of the quest of the Holy Graal (pt. iii.
101, 102.[TN-82]--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_ (1470).

=Percival Glyde= (_Sir_). Rascally husband of _Laura Fairlie_. To possess
himself of her fortune, he incarcerates her in an insane asylum, gives
out that she is dead, and uses the corpse of her half-sister to confirm
the rumor.--Wilkie Collins, _The Woman in White_.

=Percy Arundel= (_Lord Ashdale_), son of Lady Arundel, by her second
husband. A hot, fiery youth, proud and overbearing. When grown to
manhood, a "sea-captain" named Norman, made love to Violet, Lord
Ashdale's cousin. The young "Hotspur" was indignant and somewhat
jealous, but discovered that Norman was the son of Lady Arundel by her
fi