eagle, and unchained the captive.

Learn the while, in brief,
That all arts come to mortals from Prometheus.

E. B. Browning, _Prometheus Bound_ (1850).

Truth shall restore the light by Nature given,
And, like Prometheus, bring the fire from heaven.

Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1700).

[Asterism] Percy B. Shelley has a classical drama entitled _Prometheus
Unbound_ (1819).

James Russell Lowell has a noble poem entitled _Prometheus_,
beginning,--

"One after one the stars have risen and set,
Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain."

=Prompt=, the servant of Mr. and Miss Blandish. General Burgoyne, _The
Heiress_ (1781).

=Pronando= (_Rast_). The early lover of Anne Douglas. He is handsome,
weak, and attractive in disposition, a favorite with all his friends.
His pliant character and good-natured vanity make him a prey to the
whimsical fascinations of Tita, Anne's "little sister," whom he marries
instead of his first betrothed.--Constance Fenimore Woolson, _Anne_
(1882).

=Pronouns.= It was of Henry Mossop, tragedian (1729-1773), that Churchill
wrote the two lines:

In monosyllables his thunders roll--
He, she, it, and we, ye, they, fright the soul;

because Mossop was fond of emphasizing his pronouns and little words.

=Prophecy.= Jourdain, the wizard, told the duke of Somerset, if he wished
to live, to "avoid where castles mounted stand." The duke died in an
ale-house called the Castle, in St. Alban's.

... underneath an ale-house' paltry sign,
The Castle, in St. Alban's, Sumerset
Hath made the wizard famous in his death.

Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._ act v. sc. 2 (1591).

Similar prophetic equivokes were told to Henry IV., Pope Sylvester II.,
and Cambys[^e]s (see JERUSALEM).

Aristom[)e]n[^e]s was told by the Delphic oracle to "flee for his life
when he saw a goat drink from the river Neda." Consequently, all _goats_
were driven from the banks of this river; but one day, The[)o]clos
observed that the branches of a fig tree bent into the stream, and it
immediately flashed into his mind that the Messenian word for _fig tree_
and _goat_ was the same. The pun or equivoke will be better understood
by an English reader if for _goat_ we read _ewe_, and bear in mind that
_yew_ is to the ear the same word; thus:

When an _ewe_ [_yew_] stops to drink of the "Severn," then fly,
And look not behind, for destruction is nigh.