In _Orlando Furioso_, Prester John is called by his subjects “Senāpus, king of Ethiopia.” He was blind, and though the richest monarch of the world, he pined with famine, because harpies flew off with his food by way of punishment for wanting to add paradise to his empire. The plague, says the poet, was to cease “when a stranger appeared on a flying griffin.” This stranger was Astolpho, who drove the harpies to Cocy´tus. Prester John, in return for this service, sent 100,000 Nubians to the aid of Charlemagne. Astolpho supplied this contingent with horses by throwing stones into the air, and made transport-ships to convey them to France by casting leaves into the sea. After the death of Agramant, the Nubians were sent home, and then the horses became stones again, and the ships became leaves (bks. xvii.-xix.). =Pretender= (_The Young_), Prince Charles Edward Stuart, son of James Francis Edward Stuart (called “The _Old_ Pretender”). James Francis was the son of James II., and Charles Edward was the king’s grandson.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.). Charles Edward was defeated at Cullōden in 1746, and escaped to the Continent. God bless the king--I mean the “Faith’s defender;” God bless--no harm in blessing--the Pretender. Who that Pretender is, and who is king, God bless us all! that’s quite another thing. Ascribed by Sir W. Scott to John Byrom (in _Redgauntlet_). The mistress of Charles Edward Stuart was Miss Walkingshaw. =Prettyman= (_Prince_), in love with Cloris. He is sometimes a fisherman, and sometimes a prince.--Duke of Buckingham, _The Rehearsal_ (1671). ⁂ “Prince Prettyman” is said to be a parody on “Leonidas” in Dryden’s _Marriage-à-la-mode_. =Pri´amus= (_Sir_), a knight of the Round Table. He possessed a phial, full of four waters that came from paradise. These waters instantly healed any wounds which were touched by them. “My father,” says Sir Priamus, “is lineally descended of Alexander and of Hector by right line. Duke Josuê and Machabæus were of our lineage. I am right inheritor of Alexandria, and Affrike of all the out isles.” And Priamus took from his page a phial, full of four waters that came out of paradise; and with certain balm nointed he their wounds, and washed them with that water, and within an hour after they were both as whole as ever they were.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 97 (1470). =Price= (_Matilda_), a miller’s daughter; a pretty, coquettish young woman, who marries John Browdie, a hearty Yorkshire corn-factor.--C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838). =Pride= (_Sir_), first a drayman, then a colonel in the parliamentary army.--S. Butler, _Hudibras_ (1663-78). =Pride of Humility.= Antisthĕnês, the Cynic, affected a very ragged coat; but Socrătês said to him, “Antisthenês, I can see your vanity peering through the holes of your coat.”