Pour moi, qui crains toute manie,
Plus irrésolu que Babouc
N’épeusant Piccini ni Glück,
Je n’y connais rien: ergo Glück.
⁂ A similar contest raged in England between the Bononcinists and Handelists.[Handelists.] The prince of Wales was the leader of the Handel or German party, and the duke of Marlborough of the Bononcini or Italian school. (See Tweedledum.)
Glumdalca, queen of the giants, captive in the court of King Arthur. The king cast love-glances at her, and made Queen Dollallolla jealous; but the giantess loved Lord Grizzle, and Lord Grizzle loved the Princess Huncamunca, and Huncamunca loved the valiant Tom Thumb.—Tom Thumb, by Fielding the novelist (1730), altered by O’Hara, author of Midas (1778).
Glum-dal´clitch, a girl nine years old “and only forty feet high.” Being such a “little thing,” the charge of Gulliver was committed to her during his sojourn in Brobdingnag.—Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.
Soon as Glumdalclitch missed her pleasing care,
She wept, she blubbered, and she tore her hair.
Pope.