=Golden Stream= (_The_), Joannes Damascēnus (died 756). =Golden-tongued= (_The_), St. Peter, of Ravenna (433-450). Our equivalent is a free translation of the Greek _chrysol´ogos_ (_chrusos logos_, “gold discourse”). =Goldfinch= (_Charles_), a vulgar, horse fellow, impudent and insolent in manner, who flirts with Widow Warren, and conspires with her and the Jew Silky to destroy Mr. Warren’s will. By this will the widow was left £600 a year, but the bulk of the property went to Jack Milford, his natural son, and Sophia Freelove, the daughter of Widow Warren by a former marriage. (See BEAGLE.) Father was a sugar-baker, grandfather a slop-seller, I’m a gentleman.—Holcroft, _The Road to Ruin_, ii. 1 (1792). =Goldiebirds= (_Messrs._), creditors of Sir Arthur Wardour.—Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.). =Gold-mine= (_The_) or =Miller of Grenoble=, a drama by E. Stirling (1854). (For the plot, see SIMON.) =Gold-mines= (_King of the_), a powerful, handsome prince, who was just about to marry the Princess All-Fair, when Yellow Dwarf claimed her as his betrothed, and carried her to Steel Castle on a Spanish cat. A good siren gave the betrothed king a diamond sword to secure All-Fair’s deliverance; but after overcoming every obstacle, he was so delighted at seeing her that he dropped his sword. In a moment Yellow Dwarf snatched it up, and stabbed his rival to the heart. The king of the Gold-mines and All-Fair were both changed into two palm trees.—Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The Yellow Dwarf,” 1682). =Goldsmith= (_Oliver_). Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talked like poor poll. David Garrick. _Goldsmith_ (_Rev. J._), one of the many pseudonyms adopted by Sir Richard Phillips, in a series of school books. Some other of his false names were the Rev. David Blair, James Adair, Rev. C. Clarke, etc., with noted French names for educational French books. =Gol´thred= (_Lawrence_), mercer, near Cumnor Place.—Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time Elizabeth). =Gold´y.= Oliver Goldsmith was so-called by Dr. Johnson (1728-1774). =Gol´gotha= (“_the place of a skull_”), a small elevated spot north-west of Jerusalem, where criminals were executed. Used in poetry to signify a battle-field or place of great slaughter. Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha. Shakespeare, _Macbeth_, act i. sc. 2. (1606). ⁂ In the University of Cambridge, the dons’ gallery in Great St. Mary’s is called “Golgotha” because the _heads_ of the colleges sit there. _Golgotha_ (_The City_), Temple Bar, London; so called because the heads of traitors, etc., used at one time to be exposed there after decapitation. This was not done from any notion of punishment, but simply to advertise the fact as a warning to evil-doers. Temple Bar was taken away from the Strand in 1878.