Passeive, "we passeive" (R[212],a), perceive.

Passible, "obedient and passible" (M[33],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" (M[40],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" (M[21],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" (R[255],d), peep. "That other pries and peekes in euery place."—Gascoigne, Steele Glas. (1576), 68 (Arber).

Peason, (a) "peason knaves" (R[213],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" (IP[346],c), associates, companions: perers in original. "Children sittynge in Cheepynge ... cryinge to her peeris."—Wyclif, Matt. xi. 16 (1382).

Permounted, "how ye beeth permounted" (R[256],c), ? a portmanteau word promoted + mounted.