[Though we cannot point where this song, written by George Colman, and known as "Unfortunate Miss Bailey," is to be met with, we can refer our correspondent to a clever Latin version of it by the Rev. G. H. Glasse, printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for August, 1805, which commences—
"Seduxit miles virginem, receptus in hybernis,
Præcipitans quæ laqueo se transtulit Avernis."
There is also in the same magazine a French version which runs—
"Un capitaine hardi d'Halifax, demeurant à son quartier, Séduit une fille qui se pendit, un lundi avec sa jarretière," &c.]
Goblin, Gorgeous, Gossip.
—May I ask the derivation of the following English words,—Goblin, Gorgeous, Gossip?
J. G. T.
[Goblin is derived from the low Latin Gobelinus; see Ducange, who defines it, "Dæmon, qui vulgo Faunus, Gallis, Gobelin Folastre, German, Kobold," and quotes as his authority Ordericus Vitalis.
Gorgeous, according to Skinner, is from the French Gorgias, probably from Gorge, and transferred from the palate to the eye. No such word as Gorgias is, however, to be found in Roquefort's Glossaire.