_We have also our English clusters. There were those born in the second half of the sixteenth century_: Spenser (1553), Drayton (1563), Shakespeare and Marlowe (1564), Ben Jonson (1574), Fletcher (1576), Massinger (1585), Beaumont (Fletcher’s colleague) and Ford (1586). Besides these there were Tusser (1515), Raleigh (1552), Sir Philip Sidney (1554), Phineas Fletcher (1584), Herbert (1593), and several others. _Another cluster came a century later_: Prior (1664), Swift (1667), Addison and Congreve (1672), Rowe (1673), Farquhar (1678), Young (1684), Gay and Pope (1688), Macklin (1690). _These were born in the latter half of the eighteenth century_: Sheridan (1751), Crabbe (1754), Burns (1759), Rogers (1763), Wordsworth (1770), Scott (1771), Coleridge (1772), Southey (1774), Campbell (1777), Moore (1779), Byron (1788), Shelley and Keble (1792), and Keats (1796). Butler (1600), Milton (1608), and Dryden (1630) came between the first and second clusters. Thomson (1700), Gray (1717), Collins (1720), Akenside (1721), Goldsmith (1728), and Cowper (1731), between the second and the third. =Pleonec´tes= (4 _syl._), Covetousness personified, in _The Purple Island_, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). “His gold his god” ... he “much fears to keep, much more to lose his lusting.” Fully described in canto viii. (Greek, _pleonektês_, “covetous.”) =Pleydell= (_Mr. Paulus_), an advocate in Edinburgh, shrewd and witty. He was at one time the sheriff at Ellangowan. Mr. Counsellor Pleydell was a lively, sharp-looking gentleman, with a professional shrewdness in his eye, and, generally speaking, a professional formality in his manner; but this he could slip off on a Saturday evening, when ... he joined in the ancient pastime of High Jinks.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_, xxxix. (time, George II.). =Pliable=, a neighbor of Christian, whom he accompanied as far as the “Slough of Despond,” when he turned back.--Bunyan, _Pilgrim’s Progress_, i. (1678). =Pliant= (_Sir Paul_), a hen-pecked husband, who dares not even touch a letter addressed to himself till my lady has read it first. His perpetual oath is “Gadsbud!” He is such a dolt that he would not believe his own eyes and ears, if they bore testimony against his wife’s fidelity and continency. (See PLACID.) _Lady Pliant_, second wife of Sir Paul. “She’s handsome, and knows it; is very silly, and thinks herself wise; has a choleric old husband” very fond of her, but whom she rules with spirit, and snubs “afore folk.” My lady says, “If one has once sworn, it is most unchristian, inhuman, and obscene that one should break it.” Her conduct with Mr. Careless is most reprehensible.--Congreve, _The Double Dealer_ (1694). =Pliny= (_The German_), or “Modern Pliny,” Konrad von Gesner of Zurich, who wrote _Historia Animalium_, etc. (1516-1565). =Pliny of the East=, Zakarija ibn Muhammed, surnamed “Kazwînî,” from Kazwîn, the place of his birth. He is so called by De Sacy (1200-1283).