Passeth, and all is still, and the currents cease to run,
And the sea and the marsh are one.
Poems, by Sidney Lanier (1884).
Gna, the messenger of Frigga.—Scandinavian Mythology.
Goats. The Pleiades are called in Spain The Seven Little Goats.
So it happened that we passed close to the Seven Little Goats.—Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. iii. 5 (1615).
⁂ Sancho Panza affirmed that two of the goats were of a green color, two carnation, two blue, and one motley; “but,” he adds, “no he-goat or cuckold ever passes beyond the horns of the moon.”
Goatsnose, a prophet, born deaf and dumb, who uttered his predictions by signs.—Rabelais, Pantag´ruel, iii. 20 (1545).
Gobbo (Old), the father of Launcelot. He was stone blind.
Launcelot Gobbo, son of Old Gobbo. He left the service of Shylock the Jew for that of Bassa´nio, a Christian. Launcelot Gobbo is one of the famous clowns of Shakespeare.—Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (1698).