(Dodsley has this fable, and makes his milkmaid speculate on the gown she would buy with her money. It should be green, and all the young fellows would ask her to dance, but she would toss her head at them all--but ah! in tossing her head, she tossed over her milk-pail.) ⁂ Echephron, an old soldier, related this fable to the advisers of King Picrochole, when they persuaded the king to go to war: A shoemaker bought a ha’p’orth of milk; this he intended to make into butter, and with the money thus obtained he would buy a cow. The cow in due time would have a calf, the calf was to be sold, and the man when he became a nabob would marry a princess; only the jug fell, the milk was spilt, and the dreamer went supperless to bed.--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 33 (1533). In a similar day-dream, Alnaschar invested all his money in a basket of glassware, which he intended to sell, and buy other wares, till by barter he became a princely merchant, when he should marry the vizier’s daughter. Being offended with his wife, he became so excited that he kicked out his foot, smashed all his wares, and found himself penniless.--_Arabian Nights_ (“The Barber’s Fifth Brother”). =Perrin=, a peasant, the son of Thibaut.--Molière, _Le Médecin Malgré Lui_ (1666). =Persaunt of India= (_Sir_), the Blue Knight, called by Tennyson “Morning Star,” or “Phosphŏrus.” One of the four brothers who kept the passages to Castle Perilous. Overthrown by Sir Gareth.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 131 (1470); Tennyson, _Idylls_. “Then, at his call, ‘O, daughters of the Dawn, And servants of the Morning Star, approach, Arm me,’ from out the silken curtain-folds Bare-footed and bare-headed three fair girls In gilt and rosy raiment came; their feet In dewy grasses glisten’d; and the hair All over glanced with dewdrop or with gem, Like sparkles in the stone Avanturine. These arm’d him in blue arms, and gave a shield, Blue also, and thereon the morning star.” Tennyson, _Gareth and Lynette_. =Perseus= [_Per.suce_], a famous Argive hero, whose exploits resemble those of Herculês, and hence he was called “The Argive Herculês.” Benvenuto Cellini made a bronze statue of Perseus, which is in the Loggia dei Lanzi, in Florence. _Perseus’s Horse_, a ship. Perseus having cut off Medusa’s head, made the ship _Pegasê_, the swiftest ship hitherto known, and generally called “Perseus’s flying horse.” The thick-ribbed bark thro’ liquid mountains cut ... Like Perseus’ horse. Shakespeare, _Troilus and Cressida_, act i. sc. 3 (1602). =Persian Creed= (_The_). Zoroaster supposes there are two gods or spirit-principles--one good and the other evil. The good is Yezad, and the evil, Ahriman.