=Pa´via= (_Battle of_). Francis I. of France is said to have written to his mother these words, after the loss of this battle: “Madame, tout est perdu hors l’honneur;” but what he really wrote was: “Madame ... de toutes choses ne m’est demeuré pas que l’honneur et la vie.” And with a noble siege revolted Pavia took. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xviii. (1613). =Pavillon= (_Meinheer Hermann_), the syndic at Liège [_Le-aje_]. _Mother Mabel Pavillon_, wife of Meinheer Hermann. _Trudchen_ or _Gertrude Pavillon_, their daughter, betrothed to Hans Glover.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.). =Pawkins= (_Major_), a huge, heavy man, “one of the most remarkable of the age.” He was a great politician and great patriot, but generally under a cloud, wholly owing to his distinguished genius for bold speculations, not to say “swindling schemes.” His creed was “to run a moist pen slick through everything, and start afresh.”--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844). =Pawnbrokers’ Balls.= The gilded balls, the sign of pawnbrokers, are the pills on the shield of the Medici family. Its founder, Cosmo, named after Saint Cosmo, the patron of physicians, joined the guild of the doctors (_Medici_), as every Florentine enrolled himself in one of these charitable societies. The Medici family became great money-lenders, and their shield with the “balls” or “pills” was placed over the doors of their agents. =Paynim Harper= (_The_), referred to by Tennyson in the _Last Tournament_, was Orpheus. Swine, goats, asses, rams and geese Troop’d round a Paynim harper once ... Then were swine, goats, asses, geese The wiser fools, seeing thy Paynim bard Had such a mastery of his mystery That he could harp his wife up out of hell. Tennyson, _The Last Tournament_ (1859). =Peace= (_Prince of the_), Don Manuel Godoy, born at Badajoz. So called because he concluded the “peace of Basle” between the French and Spanish nations in 1795 (1767-1851). _Peace_ (_The Father of_), Andrea Doria (1469-1560). _Peace_ (_The Surest Way to_). Fox, afterwards bishop of Hereford, said to Henry VIII., _The surest way to peace is a constant preparation for war_. The Romans had the axiom, _Si vis pacem, para bellum_. It was said of Edgar, surnamed “the Peaceful,” king of England, that he preserved peace in those turbulent times “by being always prepared for war” (reigned 959-975.) =Peace Thirlmore=, ambitious daughter of a scholarly recluse near New Haven. She marries a clever student, who becomes a sensational preacher, then farmer, then an army officer. His wife passes through many stages of belief and emotion, emerging at last into the sunshine.--W. M. Baker, _His Majesty, Myself_ (1879). =Peace at any Price.= Mézeray says of Louis XII., that he had such detestation of war that he rather chose to lose his duchy of Mĭlan than burden his subjects with a war-tax.--_Histoire de France_ (1643).