Est-ce Glück, est-ce Puccini, Que doit couronner Polymnie? Donc entre Glück et Puccini Tout le Parnasse est désuni. L’un soutient ce que l’autre nie, Et Clio veut battre Uranie, 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. 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. =Glumms=, the male population of the imaginary country Nosmnbdsgrsutt, visited by Peter Wilkins. The Glumms, like the females, called gawreys (_q.v._), had wings, which served both for flying and dress—R. Pultock, _Peter Wilkins_ (1750). =Glutton= (_The_), Vitellius, the Roman emperor (born a.d. 15, reigned 69, died 69). Visiting the field after the battle of Bedriac, in Gaul, he exclaimed, “The body of a dead enemy is a delightful perfume.” ⁂ Charles IX. of France, when he went in grand procession to visit the gibbet on which Admiral Coligny was hanging, had the wretched heartlessness to exclaim, in doggerel verse; Fragrance sweeter than the rose Rises from our slaughtered foes. _Glutton (The)_, Gabius Apicius, who lived during the reign of Tiberius. He spent £800,000 on the luxuries of the table, and when only £80,000 of his large fortune remained, he hanged himself, thinking death preferable to “starvation on such a miserable pittance.” =Glynn= (_The Marshes of_). Title of a poem by Sidney Lanier, descriptive of a marsh on the Southern coast. The creeks overflow; a thousand riverlets run Twixt the roots of the sod; the blades of the marsh-grass stir, Passeth a hurrying sound of wings that westward whir; 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._