=Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day.= To wit: Bernard de Mandeville, Daniel Bartoli, Christopher Smart, George Bubb Dodington, Francis Furini, Gerard de Lairesse, and Charles Avison. Introduced by A Dialogue between Apollo and the Fates; concluded by Another between John Fust and his Friends. The title-page stands thus, and the following dedication is on the next page: "In Memoriam J. Milsand. Obiit iv. Sept. MDCCCLXXXVI. _Absens absentem auditque videtque._" Published 1887. M. Milsand was a well-known French critic, and was an early admirer of Mr. Browning's works. _Sordello_ was dedicated to M. Milsand in its revised edition. The _Parleyings_ volume is dealt with in a lucid and sympathetic manner in Mr. Nettleship's _Essays and Thoughts_.
=Parting at Morning.= See MEETING AT NIGHT, to which this poem is the sequel.
=Patriot, The.= AN OLD STORY. (_Men and Women_, 1855; _Romances_, 1863; _Dramatic Romances_, 1868.) A patriot who has been the people's idol, and now, having fallen from his pedestal, is on his way to execution. A year ago that very day they would have given him the sun from their skies had he asked it in that city whose air was a mist of joy bells. He strove his hardest to pluck down that sun to give them, and to-day the year is run out, and he goes bound, with bleeding forehead from the pelting stones, to the shambles. But God will repay, and he feels safe with that. It has been thought that this poem refers to Arnold of Brescia. Mr. Browning contradicted this.
=Paul Desforges Maillard.= (_Two Poets of Croisic._) He is the second of the Poets, René Gentilhomme being the first. He competed for a prize at the French Academy, and was unsuccessful. The poem tells how he made his name known through his sister's influence.