Florʹizel

Prince of Bohemia, in love with Perʹdita. (Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale.)

Florizel. George the Fourth, when prince, corresponded under this name with Mrs. Robinson, actress and poet, generally known as Perdita, that being the character in which she first attracted the prince’s attention.

Prince Florizel, in Lord Beaconsfield’s novel of Endymion (1880), is meant for Napoleon III.

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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.