P [alliterative].
In 1548, Placentius, a Dominican monk, wrote a poem of 253 hexameter verses (called Pugna Porcõrum), every word of which begins with the letter p. It opens thus:—
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.