Chapter Popish Plot to Posthumus of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Portman Square (London). So called from William Henry Portman, owner of the estate in which the Square and Orchard Street stand.

Portsmouth (The duchess of), “La Belle Louise de Querouaille,” one of the mistresses of Charles II.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Portuguese Cid (The), Nunez Alvarez Pereira (1360–1431).

Portuguese Horace (The), Antonio Ferreira (1528–1569).

Portuguese Mars (The), Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515).

Portuguese Nostradamus (The), Gonçalo Annes Bandarra, a poet-cobbler (died 1556). His writings were suppressed by the Inquisition.

Possunt, quia Posse Videntur. Fail not to will, and you will not fail.—Virgil: Æneid, v. 231.

Postage. Design for the penny postage envelope. It was Mulready who made this ridiculous design for the penny postage envelopes, but happily it had very brief period of existence. In 1896 the lord mayor of London issued his invitation for the banquet given on the 9th November on cards of similar character, but, if possible, in still worse taste than the Mulready envelopes (q.v.).

Posthumus [Leonatus] married Imogen, daughter of Cymbeline king of Britain, and, was banished the kingdom for life. He went to Italy, and there, in the house of Philario, bet a diamond ring with Iachimo that nothing could seduce the fidelity of Imogen. (For the rest of the tale, see Iachimo, p. 516.)—Shakespeare: Cymbeline (1605).