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which is a departure both from Kotzebue and also from historic truth.
Pizarro lived to conquer Peru, and was assassinated in his palace at
Lima, by the son of his friend, Almagro.)

_Pizarro_, "the ready tool of fell Velasquez' crimes."--R. Jephson,
_Braganza_ (1775).

_Pizarro_, the governor of the State prison, in which Fernando Florestan
was confined. Fernando's young wife, in boy's attire, and under the name
of Fidelio, became the servant of Pizarro, who, resolving to murder
Fernando, sent Fidelio and Rocco (the jailer) to dig his grave. Pizarro
was just about to deal the fatal blow, when the minister of state
arrived, and commanded the prisoner to be set free.--Beethoven,
_Fidelio_ (1791).

=Place'bo=, one of the brothers of January, the old baron of Lombardy.
When January held a family conclave to know whether he should marry,
Placebo told him "to please himself, and do as he liked."--Chaucer,
_Canterbury Tales_ ("The Merchant's Tale," 1388).

=Placid= (_Mr._), a hen-pecked husband, who is roused at last to be
somewhat more manly, but could never be better than "a boiled rabbit
without oyster sauce." (See PLIANT.)

_Mrs. Placid_, the lady paramount of the house, who looked quite aghast
if her husband expressed a wish of his own, or attempted to do an
independent act.--Inchbald, _Every One Has His Fault_ (1794).

=Plac'idas=, the exact fac-simile of his friend, Amias. Having heard of
his friend's captivity, he went to release him, and being detected in
the garden, was mistaken by Corflambo's dwarf for Amias. The dwarf went
and told Paea'na (the daughter of Corflambo, "fair as ever yet saw living
eye, but too loose of life and eke of love too light"). Placidas was
seized and brought before the lady, who loved Amias, but her love was
not requited. When Placidas stood before her, she thought he was Amias,
and great was her delight to find her love returned. She married
Placidas, reformed her ways, "and all men much admired the change, and
spake her praise."--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, iv. 8, 9 (1596).

=Plagiary= (_Sir Fretful_), a playwright, whose dramas are mere
plagiarisms from "the refuse of obscure volumes." He pretends to be
rather pleased with criticism, but is sorely irritated thereby. Richard
Cumberland (1732-1811), noted for his vanity and irritability, was the
model of this character.--Sheridan, _The Critic_, i. 1 (1779).

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