Prettyman (Prince),

who figures sometimes as a fisherman’s son, and sometimes as a prince, to gain the heart of Cloris. (Buckingham: The Rehearsal.)

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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.

Prescott
Presents
Preserver [Sotēr]
Press-money and Press-men
Prester John
Prestige
Presto
Preston and his Mastiffs
Pretender
Pretext
Prettyman (Prince)
Prevarication
Prevent
Previous Question
Priam
Priamond
Priapus
Prick-eared
Prick the Garter
Pride
Pride of the Morning