Lysim'achus, governor of Metalin[^e]; and the
party, going to the shrine of Diana of Ephesus to return thanks to the
goddess, discovered the priestess to be Tha[:i]sa, the wife of
Pericl[^e]s, and mother of Marina.--Shakespeare, _Pericles, Prince of
Tyre_ (1608).

[Asterism] This is the story of _Ismene and Ismenias_ by Eustathius. The
tale was known to Gower by the translation of Godfrey Viterbo.

=Perigort= (_Cardinal_). Previous to the battle of Poitiers, he endeavors
to negotiate terms with the French king, but the only terms he can
obtain, he tells Prince Edward, are:

That to the castles, towns, and plunder ta'en,
And offered now by you to be restored,
Your royal person with a hundred knights
Are to be added prisoners at discretion.

Shirley, _Edward the Black Prince_, iv. 2 (1640).

=Peri'got= (the _t_ pronounced, so as to rhyme with _not_), a shepherd in
love with Am'oret; but the shepherdess Amaryllis also loves him, and, by
the aid of the Sullen Shepherd, gets transformed into the exact likeness
of the modest Amoret. By her wanton conduct she disgusts Perigot, who
casts her off; and by and by, meeting Amoret, whom he believes to be the
same person, rejects her with scorn, and even wounds her with intent to
kill. Ultimately the truth is discovered by Clor'in, "the faithful
shepherdess," and the lovers, being reconciled, are married to each
other.--John Fletcher, _The Faithful Shepherdess_ (1610).

=Periklym'enos=, son of Neleus (2 _syl._). He had the power of changing
his form into a bird, beast, reptile, or insect. As a bee, he perched on
the chariot of Herakl[^e]s (_Hercul[^e]s_), and was killed.

=Peril'los=, of Athens, made a brazen bull for Phal'aris, tyrant of
Agrigentum, intended for the execution of criminals. They were to be
shut up in the bull, and the metal of the bull was to be made red hot.
The cries of the victims inside were so reverberated as to resemble the
roarings of a gigantic bull. Phalaris made the first experiment by
shutting up the inventor himself in his own bull.

What's a protector?
A tragic actor, Caesar in a clown;
He's a brass farthing stamped with a crown;
A bladder blown with other breaths puffed full;
Not a Perillus, but a Perillus' bull.

John Cleveland, _A Definition of a Protector_ (died 1650).

=Perilous Castle.= The castle of Lord Douglas was so called in the reign
of Edward I., because the good Lord Douglas