on=, a young man who loved Claribel, but being told that she was
unfaithful to him, watched her. He saw, as he thought, Claribel holding
an assignation with some one he supposed to be a groom. Returning home,
he encountered Claribel herself, and "with wrathfull hand he slew her
innocent." On the trial for murder, "the lady" was proved to be
Claribel's servant. Phaon would have slain her also, but while he was in
pursuit of her he was attacked by Furor.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, ii.
4, 28, etc. (1590).

[Asterism] Shakespeare's _Much Ado about Nothing_ is a similar story.
Both are taken from a novel by Belleforest, copied from one by Bandello.
Ariosto, in his _Orlando Furioso_, has introduced a similar story (bk.
v.), and Turbervil's _Geneura_ is the same tale.

=Pharamond=, king of the Franks, who visited, _incognito_, the court of
King Arthur, to obtain by his exploits a place among the knights of the
Round Table. He was the son of Marcomir, and father of Clodion.

Calpren[`e]de has an heroic romance so called, which (like his _Cleopatra
and Cassandra_) is a _Roman de Longue Haleine_ (1612-1666).

_Pharamond_, prince of Spain, in the drama called _Philaster_, or _Love
Lies a-bleeding_, by Beaumont and Fletcher (date uncertain, probably
about 1662).

=Pharaoh=, the titular name of all the Egyptian kings till the time of
Solomon, as the Roman emperors took the titular name of Caesar. After
Solomon's time, the titular name Pharaoh never occurs alone, but only as
a forename, as Pharaoh Necho, Pharaoh Hophra, Pharaoh Shishak. After the
division of Alexander's kingdom, the kings of Egypt were all called
Ptolemy, generally with some distinctive after-name, as Ptolemy
Philadelphos, Ptolemy Euerget[^e]s, Ptolemy Philop[)a]tor, etc.--Selden,
_Titles of Honor_, v. 50 (1614).

_Pharaohs before Solomon_ (mentioned in the Old Testament):

1. Pharaoh contemporary with Abraham (_Gen._ xii. 15). This may be
Osirtesen I. (dynasty xii.).

2. The _good_ Pharaoh who advanced Joseph (_Gen._ xli.). This was,
perhaps, Ap[=o]phis (one of the Hyksos).

3. The Pharaoh who "knew not Joseph" (_Exod._ i. 8). This may be
Amen'ophis I. (dynasty xviii.). The king, at the flight of Moses, I
think, was Thothmes II.

4. The Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea. As this was at least eighty years
after the persecutions began, probably this was another king. Some say
it was Menephthes, son of Ram'eses II., but it seems quite impossible to
reconc