Chapter Peony to Perillo Swords of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

to the Koran, are under the sovereignty of Eblis; and Mahomet was sent for their conversion, as well as for that of man.

“Like peris' wands, when pointing out the road
For some pure spirit to the blest abode.”
Thomas Moore: Lalla Rookh, pt. i.

Pericles Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare). The story is from the Gesta Romanorum, where Pericles is called “Apollonius, King of Tyre.” The story is also related by Gower in his Confessio Amantis (bk. viii.).

Pericles' Boast When Pericles, Tyrant of Athens, was on his death-bed, he overheard his friends recounting his various merits, and told them they had omitted the greatest of all, that no Athenian through his whole administration had put on mourning through his severity- i.e. he had caused no Athenian to be put to death arbitrarily.

Perillo Swords Perillo is a “little stone,” a mark by which Julian del Rey, a famous armourer of Toledo and Zaragoza, authenticated the swords of his manufacture. All perillo swords were made of the steel produced from the mines of Mondragon. The swords given by Katharine of Aragon to Henry VIII. on his wedding-day were all Perillo blades.
   The most common inscription was, “Draw me not without reason, sheathe me not without honour. ”