egree at our principal adversity;"
asks "if the Muses are a family living at Oxford," if so, she tells
Captain Stukely, she will be delighted to "see them at Strawberry Hall,
with any other of his friends." Miss Pumpkin hates "play acting," but
does not object to love-making.--Jackman, _All the World's a Stage_.

=Punch=, derived from the Latin _Mimi_, through the Italian
_Pullicenella_. It was originally intended as a characteristic
representation. The tale is this: Punch, in a fit of jealousy, strangles
his infant child, when Judy flies to her revenge. With a bludgeon she
belabors her husband, till he becomes so exasperated that he snatches
the bludgeon from her, knocks her brains out, and flings the dead body
into the street. Here it attracts the notice of a police officer, who
enters the house, and Punch flies to save his life. He is, however,
arrested by an officer of the Inquisition, and is shut up in prison,
from which he escapes by a golden key. The rest of the allegory shows
the triumph of Punch over slander, in the shape of a dog, disease in the
guise of a doctor death, and the devil.

_Pantalone_ was a Venetian merchant; _Dottore_ a Bolognese physician;
_Spaviento_ a Neapolitan braggadocio; _Pullicinella_ a wag of Apulia;
_Giangurgolo_ and _Coviello_ two clowns of Calabria; _Gelsomino_ a Roman
beau; _Beltrame_ a Milanese simpleton; _Brighella_ a Ferrarese pimp; and
_Arlecchino_ a blundering servant of Bergamo. Each was clad in an
appropriate dress, had a characteristic mask, and spoke the dialect of
the place he represented.

Besides these there were _Amorosos_ or _Innamoratos_, with their
servettas, or waiting-maids, as _Smeraldina_, _Columbina_, _Spilletta_,
etc., who spoke Tuscan.--Walker, _On the Revival of the Drama in Italy_,
249.

_Punch_, the periodical. The first cover was designed by A. S. Henning;
the present one by R. Doyle.

=Pure= (_Simon_), a Pennsylvanian Quaker. Being about to visit London to
attend the quarterly meeting of his sect he brings with him a letter of
introduction to Obadiah Prim, a rigid, stern Quaker, and the guardian of
Anne Lovely, an heiress worth [pounds]30,000. Colonel Feignwell, availing
himself of this letter of introduction, passes himself off as Simon
Pure, and gets established as the accepted suitor of the heiress.
Presently the real Simon Pure makes his appearance, and is treated as an
impostor and swindler. The colonel hastens on the marriage arrangements,