t for mourning." "There, all leave me:

Sparing no tears when you this tale relate,
But bid all cruel fathers dread my fate."

T. Otway, _Venice Preserved_, v. the end (1682).

=Privolvans=, the antagonists of the Subvolvans.

These silly, ranting Privolvans
Have every summer their campaigns,
And muster like the warlike sons
Of Rawhead and of Bloody-bones.

S. Butler, _The Elephant in the Moon_, v. 85 (1754).

=Probe= (1 _syl._), a priggish surgeon, who magnifies mole-hill ailments
into mountain maladies, in order to enhance his skill and increase his
charges. Thus, when Lord Foppington received a small flesh-wound in the
arm from a foil, Probe drew a long face, frightened his lordship
greatly, and pretended the consequences might be serious; but when Lord
Foppington promised him [pounds]500 for a cure, he set his patient on
his legs the next day.--Sheridan, _A Trip to Scarborough_ (1777).

=Procida= (_John of_), a tragedy by S. Knowles (1840). John of Procida was
an Italian gentleman of the thirteenth century, a skillful physician,
high in favor with King Fernando II., Conrad, Manfred, and Conrad'ine.
The French invaded the island, put the last two monarchs to the sword,
usurped the sovereignty, and made Charles d'Anjou king. The cruelty,
licentiousness, and extortion of the French being quite unbearable,
provoked a general rising of the Sicilians, and in one night (_Sicilian
Vespers_, March 30, 1282), every Frenchman, Frenchwoman, and French
child in the whole island was ruthlessly butchered. Proc[)i]da lost his
only son Fernando, who had just married Isoline (3 _syl._), the daughter
of the French governor of Messina. Isoline died broken-hearted, and her
father, the governor, was amongst the slain. The crown was given to John
of Procida.

=Procris=, the wife of Ceph[)a]los. Out of jealousy she crept into a wood
to act as a spy upon her husband. Cephalos, hearing something move,
discharged an arrow in the direction of the rustling, thinking it to be
caused by some wild beast, and shot Procris. Jupiter, in pity, turned
Procris into a star.--_Greek and Latin Mythology._

_The unerring dart of Procris._ Diana gave Procris a dart which never
missed its aim, and after being discharged returned back to the
shooter.

=Procrus'tes= (3 _syl._), a highwayman of Attica, who used to place
travellers on a bed; if they were too short he stretched them out till
they fitted it, if