Chapter VII

), while Petronilla, has given Parnell, Purnell. As a female name it suffered the eclipse to which certain names are accidentally subject, and became equivalent to wench. References to a "prattling Parnel" are common in old writers, and the same fate overtook it in French--

"Taisez-vous, péronnelle" (Tartufe, i. 1).

Mention has already been made of the survival of Guinevere (