ogrom'itus=, a name alluded to by Sir Andrew Ague-cheek.

In sooth thou wast in very gracious fooling last night when thou
spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the Vapian passing the equinoctial of
Queubus. 'Twas very good, i' faith.--Shakespeare, _Twelfth Night_,
act ii. sc. 3 (1614).

=Pigwig'gen=, a fairy knight, whose amours with Queen Mab, and furious
combat with Oberon, form the subject of Drayton's _Nymphidia_ (1593).

=Pike= (_Gideon_), valet to old Major Bellenden.--Sir W. Scott, _Old
Mortality_ (time, Charles II.).

=Pila'tus= (_Mount_), in Switzerland. The legend is that Pontius Pilate,
being banished to Gaul by the Emperor Tiberius, wandered to this mount,
and flung himself into a black lake at the summit of the hill, being
unable to endure the torture of conscience for having given up the Lord
to crucifixion.

=Pilgrim Fathers.= They were 102 puritans (English, Scotch, and Dutch),
who went, in December, 1620, in a ship called the _Mayflower_, to North
America, and colonized Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and
Connecticut. These states they called "New England." New Plymouth (near
Boston) was the second colony planted by the English in the New World.

Men in the middle of life, austere and grave in deportment....
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.

Longfellow, _Courtship of Miles Standish_, iv. (1858).

=Pilgrim--Palmer.= _Pilgrims_ had dwellings, _palmers_ had none.
_Pilgrims_ went at their own charge, _palmers_ professed willing
poverty, and lived on charity. _Pilgrims_ might return to a secular
life, _palmers_ could not. _Pilgrims_ might hold titles and follow
trades, _palmers_ were wholly "religious" men.

=Pilgrim to Compostella.= Some pilgrims on their way to Compostella,
stopped at a hospice in La Calz[=a]da. The daughter of the innkeeper
solicited a young Frenchman to spend the night with her, but he refused;
so she put in his wallet a silver cup, and when he was on the road, she
accused him to the alcayd[^e] of theft. As the property was found in his
possession, the alcayd[^e] ordered him to be hung. His parents went on
their way to Compostella, and returned after eight days, but what was
their amazement to find their son alive on the gibbet, and uninjured.
They went instantly to tell the alcayd[^e]; but the magistrate replied,
"Woman, you are mad! I would just as soon believe these pullets, which
I am about t