PARLEMENT, "A _parlement_, a _parlement_," (M35,_a_), conference, consultation, talk. "He sent to his barrons a _parlement_ to hold." --_Robert de Brunne,_ p. 244. PARTICIPABLE, "be _participable of_" (M3,_d_), partakers of. PARTY, see Mankind, _Amended Readings._ PASH, PASSHE (_passim_), (_a_) the Passover, Easter-tide, properly Pasch. (_b_) "_Pash_ head! _pash_ brain" (WS143,_b_), smash, dash to pieces. "And _pash_ the jaws of serpents venomous." --Marlowe, 1 _Tamburlaine_ (1590), i. 1. PASS, "I do not _pass_" (WS147,_c_), care, reck, mind: see other volumes of this series. PASSEIVE, "we _passeive_" (R212,_a_), perceive. PASSIBLE, "obedient and _passible_" (M33,_a_), able to feel or suffer. "Therein he assumed human nature, mortal, and _passible_."--Chr. Sutton, _Godly Meditations_ (1622), p. 24 (ed. 1849). PATROCINY, "my several _patrociny_" (M40,_c_), patronage, protection, defence, support. "To take hym and his pore causis into your _patrocynye_ and protection."--Wolsey, _Lett. to Gardener_ (1529) in Strype, _Eccl. Mem._, I. App. xxxiii. 92. PATUS, "I beshrew your _patus_" (M21,_c_), head: mock Latin. PAUL'S STEEPLE, etc. (_passim_), Paul's (Poules, Paules, Powlys, Pawles, etc.), _i.e._ St. Paul's Cathedral in London, a favourite lounge and business resort in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,--hence frequent allusions in old writers. PEAK, "bold to _peak_ in" (R255,_d_), peep. "That other pries and _peekes_ in euery place."--Gascoigne, _Steele Glas._ (1576), 68 (Arber). PEASON, (_a_) "_peason_ knaves" (R213,_c_), peasant knaves: a generic reproach = low fellow, rascal, "villain." Possibly also with an eye on the chief food staple of the lower classes in Tudor times, pease (or peason) and beans. (_b_) see Peson. PEERS, "with all their old _peers_" (IP346,_c_), associates, companions: _perers_ in original. "Children sittynge in Cheepynge ... cryinge to her _peeris_."--Wyclif, _Matt._ xi. 16 (1382). PERMOUNTED, "how ye beeth _permounted_" (R256,_c_), ? a portmanteau word _promoted_ + _mounted_. PERSECUTED, "how shall this redress be well _persecuted_" (R269,_c_), pursued (Magnus). PERSWAGED, "cham _perswaged_" (_passim_), persuaded. PERVERSIOUS, "this _perversious_ ingratitude" (M33,_b_), perverse. PERVERTIONATE, "that ever be _pervertionate_" (M10,_c_), perverse. PERZENT, "whom itch do _perzent_" (R211,_a_), represent.