ace is all
shrivelled and pinched with care, and he shakes his head like a mandarin
upon a chimney-piece" (act i. 1).

When I was very young, I performed the part of "Old Philpot," at
Brighton, with great success, and next evening I was introduced
into a club-room full of company. On hearing my name announced, one
of the gentlemen laid down his pipe, and taking up his glass, said,
"Here's to your health, young gentleman, and to your father's, too.
I had the pleasure of seeing him last night in the part of
'Philpot,' and a very nice, clever old gentleman he is. I hope,
young sir, you may one day be as good an actor as your worthy
father."--Munden.

_George Philpot._ The profligate son of old Philpot, destined for Maria
Wilding, but the betrothal is broken off, and Maria marries Beaufort.
George wants to pass for a dashing young blade, but is made the dupe of
every one. "Bubbled at play; duped by a girl to whom he paid his
addresses; cudgelled by a rake; laughed at by his cronies; snubbed by
his father, and despised by every one."--Murphy, _The Citizen_ (1757 or
1761).

=Philtra=, a lady of large fortune, betrothed to Brac[)i]das; but, seeing
the fortune of Am[)i]das daily increasing, and that of Bracidas getting
smaller and smaller, she forsook the declining fortune of her first
lover, and attached herself to the more prosperous younger
brother.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, v. 4 (1596).

=Phineus= [_Fi'.nuce_], a blind soothsayer, who was tormented by the
harpies. Whenever a meal was set before him, the harpies came and
carried it off, but the Argonauts delivered him from these pests in
return for his information respecting the route they were to take in
order to obtain the golden fleece. (See TIRESIAS.)

Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iii. 36 (1665).

=Phiz=, the pseudonym of Hablot K. Browne, who illustrated the _Pickwick
Papers_ (1836), _Nicholas Nickleby_, and most of Charles Dickens's works
of fiction. He also illustrated the Abbotsford edition of the _Waverley
Novels_.

=Phleg'rian Size=, gigantic. Phlegra, or the Phlegrae'an plain, in
Macedon, is where the giants attacked the gods, and were defeated by
Herc[)u]l['e]s. Drayton makes the diphthong _ae_ a short _i_:

Whose only love surprised those of the Phlegrian size,
The Titanois, that once against high heaven durst rise.

_Polyolbion_, vi. (1612).