Timothy Burrell, Esq., in 1715, bequeathed to his nephew Timothy, the sum of £20 a year, to be paid during his residence at the university, and to be continued to him till he obtained some preferment worth at least £30 a year.--_Sussex Archæological Collections_, iii. 172. =Parson Bate=, a stalwart choleric, sporting parson, editor of the _Morning Post_ in the latter half of the eighteenth century. He was afterwards Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart. When Sir Henry Bate Dudley was appointed an Irish dean, a young lady of Dublin said, “Och! how I long to see our dane! They say ... he fights like an angel.”--_Cassell’s Magazine_ (“London Legends,” iii.) =Parson Collins=, shrewd backwoodsman, ready for fight or prayer. He suffers at the hands of desperadoes, but is dauntless, and always gets the better of his partner in a trade. His white mule Ma’y Jane, is the only creature that outwits him, and that only at fence-corners.--Octave Thanet, _Expiation_ (1890). =Parson Runo= (_A_), a simple-minded clergyman, wholly unacquainted with the world; a Dr. Primrose, in fact. It is a Russian household phrase, having its origin in the singular simplicity of the Lutheran clergy of the Isle of Runo. =Parson Trulliber=, a fat clergyman, slothful, ignorant, and intensely bigoted.--Fielding, _Joseph Andrews_ (1742). =Parsons= (_Walter_), the giant porter of King James I. (died 1622).--Fuller, _Worthies_ (1662). =Parsons’ Kaiser= (_The_), Karl IV., of Germany, who was set up by Pope Clement VI., while Ludwig IV. was still on the throne. The Germans called the pope’s _protégé_ “_pfaffen kaiser_.” =Parthe´nia=, the mistress of Argălus.--Sir Philip Sidney, _Arcadia_ (1580). _Parthenia_, Maidenly Chastity personified. Parthenia is sister of Agnei´a (3 _syl._), or wifely chastity, the spouse of Encra´tês, or temperance. Her attendant is Er´ythre, or modesty. (Greek, _parthĕnia_, “maidenhood.”)--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, x. (1633). =Parthen´ope= (4 _syl._), one of the three syrens. She was buried at Naples. Naples itself was anciently called Parthenopê, which name was changed to _Neap´olis_ (“the new city”) by a colony of Cumæans. By dead Parthenope’s dear tomb. Milton, _Comus_, 879 (1634). Loitering by the sea That laves the passionate shores of soft Parthenopê. Lord Lytton, _Ode_, iii. 2 (1839). (The three syrens were Parthenopê, Ligēa, and Leucos´ia, not _Leucoth´ea_, _q.v._) _Parthenope_ (4 _syl._), the damsel beloved by Prince Volscius.--Duke of Buckingham, _The Rehearsal_ (1671). =Parthen´ope of Naples=, Sannazora, the Neapolitan poet called “The Christian Virgil.” Most of his poems were published under the assumed name of _Actius Sincerus_ (1458-1530). At last the Muses ... scattered ... Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa’s bowers [_Petrarch_] To Arno [_Dante and Boccaccio_] ... and the shore Of soft Parthenope.