=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). =Gob´ilyve= (_Godfrey_), the assumed name of False Report. He is described as a dwarf, with great head, large brows, hollow eyes, crooked nose, hairy cheeks, a pied beard, hanging lips, and black teeth. His neck was short, his shoulders awry, his breast fat, his arms long, his legs “kewed,” and he rode “brigge-a-bragge on a little nag.” He told Sir Graunde Amoure he was wandering over the world to find a virtuous wife, but hitherto without success. Lady Correction met the party, and commanded Gobilyve (3 _syl._) to be severely beaten for a lying varlet.—Stephen Hawes, _The Passe-tyme of Plesure_, xxix., xxxi., xxxii. (1515). =Gobseck=, a grasping money-lender, the hero and title of one of Balzac’s novels. =God.= _Full of the god_, full of wine, partly intoxicated. _God made the country, and man made the town._—Cowper’s _Task_ (“The Sofa”). Varro, in his _De Re Rustica_, has: “Divina Natura agros dedit, ars humana ædificavit urbes.” _God sides with the strongest._ Napoleon I. said, “Le bon Dieu est toujours du coté des gros bataillons.” Julius Cæsar made the same remark. =Godam=, a nickname applied by the French to the English, in allusion to a once popular oath. =Godfrey= (_de Bouillon_), the chosen chief of the allied crusaders, who went to wrest Jerusalem from the hands of the Saracens. He was calm, circumspect, prudent, and brave. Godfrey despised “worldly empire, wealth, and fame.”—Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). _Godfrey_ (_Sir Edmondbury_), a magistrate killed by the papists. He was very active in laying bare their nefarious schemes, and his body was found pierced with his own sword, in 1678.—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). ⁂ Dryden calls Sir Edmondbury “Agag,” and Dr. Titus Otes he calls “Corah.” Corah might for Agag’s murder call, In terms as coarse as Samuel used to Saul. _Absalom and Achitophel_, i. (1681). _Godfrey_ (_Miss_), an heiress, daughter of an Indian governor.—Sam. Foote, _The Liar_ (1761).