is de Jamyn. All under Henri III.

_The Second French Pleiad_ (seventeenth century): Rapin, Commire, Larue,
Santeuil, M['e]nage, Dup['e]rier, and Petit.

_We have also our English clusters. There were those born in the second
half of the sixteenth century_: Spenser (1553), Drayton (1563),
Shakespeare and Marlowe (1564), Ben Jonson (1574), Fletcher (1576),
Massinger (1585), Beaumont (Fletcher's colleague) and Ford (1586).
Besides these there were Tusser (1515), Raleigh (1552), Sir Philip
Sidney (1554), Phineas Fletcher (1584), Herbert (1593), and several
others.

_Another cluster came a century later_: Prior (1664), Swift (1667),
Addison and Congreve (1672), Rowe (1673), Farquhar (1678), Young (1684),
Gay and Pope (1688), Macklin (1690).

_These were born in the latter half of the eighteenth century_: Sheridan
(1751), Crabbe (1754), Burns (1759), Rogers (1763), Wordsworth (1770),
Scott (1771), Coleridge (1772), Southey (1774), Campbell (1777), Moore
(1779), Byron (1788), Shelley and Keble (1792), and Keats (1796).

Butler (1600), Milton (1608), and Dryden (1630) came between the first
and second clusters. Thomson (1700), Gray (1717), Collins (1720),
Akenside (1721), Goldsmith (1728), and Cowper (1731), between the second
and the third.

=Pleonec'tes= (4 _syl._), Covetousness personified, in _The Purple
Island_, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). "His gold his god" ... he "much
fears to keep, much more to lose his lusting." Fully described in canto
viii. (Greek, _pleonekt[^e]s_, "covetous.")

=Pleydell= (_Mr. Paulus_), an advocate in Edinburgh, shrewd and witty. He
was at one time the sheriff at Ellangowan.

Mr. Counsellor Pleydell was a lively, sharp-looking gentleman, with
a professional shrewdness in his eye, and, generally speaking, a
professional formality in his manner; but this he could slip off on
a Saturday evening, when ... he joined in the ancient pastime of
High Jinks.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_, xxxix. (time, George
II.).

=Pliable=, a neighbor of Christian, whom he accompanied as far as the
"Slough of Despond," when he turned back.--Bunyan, _Pilgrim's Progress_,
i. (1678).

=Pliant= (_Sir Paul_), a hen-pecked husband, who dares not even touch a
letter addressed to himself till my lady has read it first. His
perpetual oath is "Gadsbud!" He is such a dolt that he would not believe
his own eyes and ears, if they bore testimony against his wife's
fidelity and conti