=God´inez= (_Doctor_), a schoolmaster, “the most expert flogger in Oviedo” [_Ov.e.a.´do_]. He taught Gil Blas, and “in six years his worthy pupil understood a little Greek, and was a tolerable Latin scholar.”—Lesage, _Gil Blas_, i. (1716). =Godi´va= or =Godgifu=, wife of Earl Leofric. The tale is that she begged her husband to remit a certain tax which oppressed the people of Coventry. Leofric said he would do so only on one condition—that she would ride naked through the city at midday. So the lady gave orders that all people should shut up their windows and doors; and she rode naked through the town, and delivered the people from the tax. The tale further says that all the people did as the lady bade them except Peeping Tom, who looked out, and was struck blind. ⁂ This legend is told at length by Drayton in his _Polyolbion_, xiii. (1613). =Godless Florins=, English two-shilling pieces issued by Shiel when master of the mint. He was a Roman Catholic, and left out F.D. (_defender of the faith_) from the legend. They were issued and called in the same year (1849). =Godmanchester Hogs and Huntingdon Sturgeon.= During a very high flood in the meadows between Huntingdon and Godmanchester, something was seen floating, which the Godmanchester people thought was a black hog, and the Huntingdon folk declared was a sturgeon. When rescued from the waters, it proved to be a young donkey.—Lord Braybrooke (Pepys, _Diary_, May 22, 1667). =Godmer=, a British giant, son of Albion, slain by Canu´tus, one of the companions of Brute. Those three monstrous stones... Which that huge son of hideous Albion, Great Godmer, threw in fierce contention At bold Canutus; but of him was slain. Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, ii. 10 (1590). =Goëmot= or =Goëmagot=, a British giant, twelve cubits high, and of such prodigious strength that he could pull up a full-grown oak at one tug. Same as Gogmagog (_q.v._). On a certain day, when Brutus was holding a solemn festival to the gods ... this giant, with twenty more of his companions, came in upon the Britons, among whom he made a dreadful slaughter; but the Britons at last ... killed them every one but Goëmagot ... him Brutus preserved alive, out of a desire to see a combat between the giant and Corineus, who took delight in such encounters.... Corineus carried him to the top of a high rock, and tossed him into the sea.—Geoffrey, _British History_, i. 16 (1142). _Goëmagot’s Leap_, or “Lam Goemagot,” now called Haw, near Plymouth; the place where the giant fell when Corin’eus (3 _syl._) tossed him down the craggy rocks, by which he was mangled to pieces.—Geoffrey, _British History_, i. 16 (1142). ⁂ Southey calls the word _Lan-gœ-mā-gog_. (See GOGMAGOG).