⁂ This tale arose from the grasshopper, which forms the crest of Sir Thomas. _To Sup with Sir Thomas Gresham_, to have no supper. Similarly, “to dine with Duke Humphrey,” is to have nowhere to dine. The Royal Exchange was at one time a common lounging-place for idlers. Tho’ little coin thy purseless pockets line, Yet with great company thou’rt taken up; For often with Duke Humphrey thou dost dine, And often with Sir Thomas Gresham sup. Hayman, _Quidlibet_ (Epigram on a loafer, 1628). =Gretchen.= Viragoish wife of _Rip Van Winkle,_ in Washington Irving’s story of that name. _Gretchen_, a German diminutive of Margaret; the heroine of Goethe’s _Faust_. Faust meets her on her return from church, falls in love with her, and at last seduces her. Overcome with shame, Gretchen destroys the infant to which she gives birth, and is condemned to death. Faust attempts to save her; and, gaining admission to the dungeon, finds her huddled on a bed of straw, singing wild snatches of ballads, quite insane. He tries to induce her to flee with him, but in vain. At daybreak Gretchen dies, and Faust is taken away. Gretchen is a perfect union of homeliness and simplicity, though her love is strong as death; yet is she a human woman throughout, and never a mere abstraction. No other character ever drawn takes so strong a hold on the heart. =Greth´el= (_Gammer_), the hypothetical narrator of the tales edited by the brothers Grimm. ⁂ Said to be Frau Viehmänin, wife of a peasant in the suburbs of Hessê Cassel, from whose mouth the brothers transcribed the tales. =Grey= (_Lady Jane_), a tragedy by N. Rowe, (1715). In _French_, Laplace (1745), Mde. de Staël (1800), Ch. Brifaut (1812), and Alexandre Soumet (1844), produced tragedies on the same subject. Paul Delaroche has a fine picture called “Le Supplice de Jane Grey” (1835). =Gribouille=, the wiseacre who threw himself into a river that his clothes might not get wetted by the rain.—_A French Proverbial Saying._ =Gride= (_Arthur_), a mean old usurer, who wished to marry Madeline Bray, but Madeline loved Nicholas Nickleby, and married him. Gride was murdered.—C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838). =Grier= (_Mrs._), straight-laced pietist, who says “if she didn’t think the heathen would be lost she wouldn’t see the use of the plan of salvation.”—Margaret Deland, _John Ward, Preacher_. =Grieux= (_le chevalier de_), the hero of a French novel by the Abbé Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763). The passionate love of the hero, the Chevalier de Grieux, for Manon, leads him into a hundred dangers, the consequences of her frivolity and inconstancy. But he dares and suffers all for her sake, and at last, when she is sent into shameful exile by the authorities, he follows her, shares her privations, and remains with her till she dies. =Grieve= (_Jackie_), landlord of an ale-house near Charlie’s Hope.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.).