=Grisilda= or =Griselda=, the model of patience and submission, meant to allegorize the submission of a holy mind to the will of God. Grisilda was the daughter of a charcoal-burner, but became the wife of Walter, marquis of Saluzzo. Her husband tried her, as God tried Job, and with the same result: (1) He took away her infant daughter, and secretly conveyed it to the queen of Pa´via to be brought up, while the mother was made to believe that it was murdered. (2) Four years later she had a son, which was also taken from her, and was sent to be brought up with his sister. (3) Eight years later, Grisilda was divorced, and sent back to her native cottage, because her husband, as she was told, intended to marry another. When, however, Lord Walter saw no indication of murmuring or jealousy, he told Grisilda that the supposed rival was her own daughter, and her patience and submission met with their full reward.—Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“The Clerk’s Tale,” 1388). =Griskinis´sa=, wife of Artaxaminous, king of Utopia. The king felt in doubt, and asked his minister of state this knotty question: Shall I my Griskiniss’s charms forego, Compel her to give up the royal chair, And place the rosy Distaffina there? The minister reminds the king that Distaffina is betrothed to his general. And would a king his general supplant? I can’t advise, upon my soul I can’t. W.B. Rhodes, _Bombastes Furioso_ (1790). =Grissel= or =Grizel=. Octavia, the wife of Mark Antony, and sister of Augustus, is called the “patient Grizel of Roman story.” Forms of the name Griselda. For patience she will prove a second Grissel. Shakespeare, _Taming of the Shrew_, act iii. sc. 1 (1594). =Griz´el Dal´mahoy= (_Miss_), the seamstress.—Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.). =Griz´zie,= maid-servant to Mrs. Saddletree.—Sir W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.). _Grizzie_, one the servants of the Rev. Josiah Gargill.—Sir W. Scott, _St. Ronan’s Well_ (time, George III.). =Griz´zle=, chambermaid at the Golden Arms inn, at Kippletringan.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). _Grizzle (Lord)_, the first peer of the realm in the court of King Arthur. He is in love with the Princess Huncamunca, and as the lady is promised in marriage to the valiant Tom Thumb, he turns traitor, and “leads his rebel rout to the palace gate.” Here Tom Thumb encounters the rebels, and Glumdalca, the giantess, thrusts at the traitor, but misses him. Then the “pigmy giant-killer” runs him through the body. The black cart comes up to drag him off, but the dead man tells the carter he need not trouble himself, as he intends “to bear himself off,” and so he does.—_Tom Thumb_, by Fielding the novelist (1730), altered by Kane O’Hara, author of _Midas_ (1778). =Groat´settar= (_Miss Clara_), niece of the old lady Glowrowrum, and one of the guests at Burgh Westra.