en 1450-1461, for the amusement of the dauphin of France,
afterwards Louis XI. (_Notes and Queries_, November 27, 1869).

[Asterism] Farquhar parodies the French expression into "Soup for
breakfast, soup for dinner, soup for supper, and soup for breakfast
again."--Farquhar, _The Inconstant_, iv. 2 (1702).

=P[`e]re Duchesne= (_Le_), Jacques Ren['e] H['e]bert; so called from the
_P[`e]re Duchesne_, a newspaper of which he was the editor (1755-1794).

=Pereard= (_Sir_), the Black Knight of the Black Lands. Called by Tennyson
"Night" or "Nox." He was one of the four brothers who kept the passages
to Castle Perilous, and was overthrown by Sir Gareth.--Sir T. Malory,
_History of Prince Arthur_, i. 126 (1470); Tennyson, _Idylls_ ("Gareth
and Lynette").

=Peredur= (_Sir_), son of Evrawe, called "Sir Peredur of the Long Spear,"
one of the knights of the Round Table. He was for many years called "The
Dumb Youth," from a vow he made to speak to no Christian till Angharad
of the Golden Hand loved him better than she loved any other man. His
great achievements were: (1) the conquest of the Black Oppressor, "who
oppressed every one and did justice to no one;" (2) killing the Addanc
of the Lake, a monster that devoured daily some of the sons of the king
of Tortures. This exploit he was enabled to achieve by means of a stone
which kept him invisible; (3) slaying the three hundred heroes
privileged to sit round the countess of the Achievements; on the death
of these men the seat next the countess was freely given to him; (4) the
achievement of the Mount of Mourning, where was a serpent with a stone
in its tail which would give inexhaustible wealth to its possessor; Sir
Peredur killed the serpent, but gave the stone to his companion, Earl
Etlym of the east country. These exploits over, Sir Peredur lived
fourteen years with the Empress Cristinobyl the Great.

Sir Peredur is the Welsh name for Sir Percival of Wales.--_The
Mabinogion_ (from the Red Book of Hergest, twelfth century).

=Per'egrine= (3 _syl._), a sentimental prig, who talks by the book. At the
age of 15 he runs away from home, and Job Thornberry lends him ten
guineas, "the first earnings of his trade as a brazier." After thirty
years absence, Peregrine returns just as the old brazier is made a
bankrupt "through the treachery of a friend." He tells the bankrupt that
his loan of ten guineas has by honest trade grown to 10,000, and these
he returns to Thornberry as