An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. Cossack commanders, cannonading, come, Dealing destruction’s devastating doom; Every endeavor engineers essay For fame, for fortune, forming furious fray. Gaunt gunners grapple, giving gashes good; Heaves high his head heroic hardihood. Ibraham, Islam, Ismael, imps in ill, Jostle John, Jarovlitz, Jem, Joe, Jack, Jill; Kick kindling Kutusoff, kings’ kinsmen kill; Labor low levels loftiest, longest lines; Men march ’mid moles, ’mid mounds, ’mid murderous mines. Now nightfall’s nigh, now needful nature nods, Opposed, opposing, overcoming odds. Poor peasants, partly purchased, partly pressed, Quite quaking, “Quarter! Quarter!” quickly quest. Reason returns, recalls redundant rage, Saves sinking soldiers, softens signiors sage. Truce, Turkey, truce! truce, treacherous Tartar train! Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish, vile vengeance! vanish, victory vain! Wisdom walls war--wails warring words. What were Xerxes, Xantippê, Ximenês, Xavier? Yet Yassy’s youth, ye yield your youthful yest Zealously, zanies, zealously, zeal’s zest. From H. Southgate, _Many Thoughts on Many Things_. Tusser has a poem of twelve lines, in rhyme, every word of which begins with _t_. The subject is on _Thriftiness_ (died 1580). =P’s= (_The Five_), William Oxberry, printer, poet, publisher, publican and player (1784-1824). =Pache= (_J. Nicolas_), a Swiss by birth. He was minister of war in 1792, and maire de Paris 1793. Pache hated the Girondists, and at the fall of Danton, was imprisoned. After his liberation, he retired to Thym-le-Moutiers (in the Ardennes), and died in obscurity (1740-1823). Swiss Pache sits sleek-headed, frugal, the wonder of his own ally for humility of mind.... Sit there, Tartuffe, till wanted.--Carlyle. =Pacific= (_The_), Amadeus VIII., count of Savoy (1383, 1391-1439, abdicated, and died 1451). Frederick III., emperor of Germany (1415, 1440-1493). Olaus III. of Norway (*, 1030-1093). =Pac´olet=, a dwarf, “full of great sense and subtle ingenuity.” He had an enchanted horse, made of wood, with which he carried off Valentine, Orson and Clerimond from the dungeon of Ferrăgus. This horse is often alluded to. “To ride Pacolet’s horse” is a phrase for _going very fast_.--_Valentine and Orson_, [TN-58]fifteenth century). _Pacolet_, a familiar spirit.--Steele, _The Tatler_ (1709). _Pacolet_, or NICK STRUMPFER, the dwarf servant of Norna “of the Fitful Head.”--Sir W. Scott, _The Pirate_ (time William III.). =Pacomo= (_St._), an Egyptian, who lived in the fourth century. It is said that he could walk among serpents unhurt; and when he had occasion to cross the Nile, he was carried on the back of a crocodile. The hermit fell on his knees before an image of St. Pacomo, which was glued to the wall.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, iv. 9 (1724).