=Pentweazel= (_Alderman_), a rich city merchant of Blowbladder Street. He is wholly submissive to his wife, whom he always addresses as “Chuck.” _Mrs. Pentweazel_, the alderman’s wife, very ignorant, very vain, and very conceitedly humble. She was a Griskin by birth, and “all her family by the mother’s side were famous for their eyes.” She had an aunt among the beauties of Windsor, “a perdigious fine woman. She had but one eye, but that was a piercer, and got her three husbands. We was called the gimlet family.” Mrs. Pentweazel says her first likeness was done after “Venus de Medicis, the sister of Mary de Medicis.” _Sukey Pentweazel_, daughter of the alderman, recently married to Mr. Deputy Dripping, of Candlewick Yard. _Carel Pentweazel_, a schoolboy, who had been under Dr. Jerks, near Doncaster, for two years and a quarter, and had learnt all _As in Præsenti_ by heart. The terms of this school were £10 a year for food, books, board, clothes and tuition.--Foote, _Taste_ (1753). =People= (_Man of the_), Charles James Fox (1749-1806). =Pepin= (_William_), a White Friar and most famous preacher at the beginning of the sixteenth century. His sermons, in eight volumes quarto, formed the grand repertory of the preachers of those times. =Pepita=, Spanish beauty of whom the poet sings: I, who dwell over the way Watch where Pepita is hid, Safe from the glare of the day, Like an eye under its lid; Over and over I say-- Name like the song of a bird, Melody shut in a word-- “Pepita!” Frank Dempster Sherman, _Madrigals and Catches_ (1887). =Pepperpot= (_Sir Peter_), a West Indian epicure, immensely rich, conceited and irritable.--Foote, _The Patron_ (1764). =Peppers.= (See WHITE HORSE OF THE PEPPERS.) =Peps= (_Dr[TN-81] Parker_), a court physician who attended the first Mrs. Dombey on her death-bed. Dr. Peps always gave his patients (by mistake, of course), a title, to impress them with the idea that his practice was exclusively confined to the upper ten thousand.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). =Perceforest= (_King_), the hero of a prose romance “in Greek.” The MS. is said to have been found by Count William of Hainault in a cabinet at “Burtimer” Abbey, on the Humber; and in the same cabinet was deposited a crown, which the count sent to King Edward. The MS. was turned into Latin by St. Landelain, and thence into French under the title of _La Tres Elegante Deliceux Melliflue et Tres Plaisante Hystoire du Tres Noble Roy Perceforest_ (printed at Paris in 1528). (Of course, this pretended discovery is only an invention. An analysis of the romance is given in Dunlop’s _History of fiction_.) He was called “Perceforest,” because he dared to _pierce_, almost alone, an enchanted _forest_, where women and children were most evilly treated. Charles IX., of France, was especially fond of this romance.