Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, xxiii. (1516). =Prome´thean Unguent= (_The_), made from the extract of a herb on which some of the blood of Promētheus (3 _syl._), had fallen. Medea gave Jason some of this unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire and warlike instruments. =Prome´theus= (3 _syl._) taught man the use of fire, and instructed him in architecture, astronomy, mathematics, writing, rearing cattle, navigation, medicine, the art of prophecy, working metal, and, indeed, every art known to man. The word means “forethought,” and forethought is the father of invention. The tale is that he made man of clay, and, in order to endow his clay with life, stole fire from heaven and brought it to earth in a hollow tube. Zeus, in punishment, chained him to a rock, and sent an eagle to consume his liver daily; during the night it grew again, and thus his torment was ceaseless, till Herculês shot the eagle, and unchained the captive. Learn the while, in brief, That all arts come to mortals from Prometheus. E. B. Browning, _Prometheus Bound_ (1850). Truth shall restore the light by Nature given, And, like Prometheus, bring the fire from heaven. Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, i. (1700). ⁂ Percy B. Shelley has a classical drama entitled _Prometheus Unbound_ (1819). James Russell Lowell has a noble poem entitled _Prometheus_, beginning,-- “One after one the stars have risen and set, Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain.” =Prompt=, the servant of Mr. and Miss Blandish. General Burgoyne, _The Heiress_ (1781). =Pronando= (_Rast_). The early lover of Anne Douglas. He is handsome, weak, and attractive in disposition, a favorite with all his friends. His pliant character and good-natured vanity make him a prey to the whimsical fascinations of Tita, Anne’s “little sister,” whom he marries instead of his first betrothed.--Constance Fenimore Woolson, _Anne_ (1882). =Pronouns.= It was of Henry Mossop, tragedian (1729-1773), that Churchill wrote the two lines: In monosyllables his thunders roll-- He, she, it, and we, ye, they, fright the soul; because Mossop was fond of emphasizing his pronouns and little words. =Prophecy.= Jourdain, the wizard, told the duke of Somerset, if he wished to live, to “avoid where castles mounted stand.” The duke died in an ale-house called the Castle, in St. Alban’s. ... underneath an ale-house’ paltry sign, The Castle, in St. Alban’s, Sumerset Hath made the wizard famous in his death. Shakespeare, 2 _Henry VI._ act v. sc. 2 (1591). Similar prophetic equivokes were told to Henry IV., Pope Sylvester II., and Cambysês (see JERUSALEM).