Then all the kings asked Merlin, “For what cause is that beardless boy Arthur made king?” “Sirs,” said Merlin, “because he is King Uther’s son, born in wedlock ... More than three hours after the death of Gorlois, did the king wed the fair Igrayne.”—Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 2, 6 (1470). [_Uther_] was sorry for the death of Gorlois, but rejoiced that Igerna was now at liberty to marry again ... they continued to live together with much affection, and had a son and daughter, whose names were Arthur and Anne.—Geoffrey, _British History_, iii. 20 (1142). ⁂ It is quite impossible to reconcile the contradictory accounts of Arthur’s sister and Lot’s wife. Tennyson says Bellicent, but the tales compiled by Sir T. Malory all give Margawse. Thus in _La Mort d’Arthur_, i. 2, we read: “King Lot of Lothan and of Orkeney wedded Margawse [_Arthur’s sister_]” (pt. i. 36), “whose sons were Gawaine, Agravaine, Gaheris, and Gareth;” but Tennyson says Gareth was “the last tall son of Lot and Bellicent.” =Gosh=, the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, the most confidential friend of the duke of Wellington, with whom he lived. =Gosling= (_Giles_), landlord of the Black Bear inn, near Cumnor place. _Cicely Gosling_, daughter of Giles.—Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_ (time, Elizabeth). =Gospel Doctor= (_The_), John Wycliffe (1324-1384). =Gospeller= (_The Hot_), Dr. R. Barnes, burnt at Smithfield, 1540. =Gossips= (_Prince of_), Samuel Pepys, noted for his gossiping _Diary_, commencing January 1, 1659, and continued for nine years (1632-1703). =Goswin=, a rich merchant of Bruges, who is in reality Florez, son of Gerrard, king of the beggars. His mistress, Bertha, the supposed daughter of Vandunke, the burgomaster of Bruges, is in reality the daughter of the duke of Brabant.—Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Beggar’s Bush_ (1622). =Goths= (_The last of the_), Roderick, the thirty-fourth of the Visigothic line of kings in Spain. He was the son of Cor´dova, who had his eyes put out by Viti´za, the king of the Visigoths, whereupon Roderick rose against Vitiza and dethroned him; but the sons and adherents of Vitiza applied to the Moors, who sent over Tarik with 90,000 men, and Roderick was slain at the battle of Xerres, A.D. 711. ⁂ Southey has an epic poem called _Roderick, the Last of the Goths_. He makes “Rusilla” to be the mother of Roderick. =Gothland= or =Gottland=, an island called “The eye of the Baltic.” Geoffrey of Monmouth says that when King Arthur had added Ireland to his dominions, he sailed to Iceland, which he subdued, and then both “Doldavius, king of Gothland, and Gunfasius, king of the Orkneys, voluntarily became his tributaries.”—_British History_, ix. 10 (1142). To Gothland now again this conqueror maketh forth ... Where Iceland first he won, and Orkney after got. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, iv. (1612).