_Gurney._ City visitor to Cedarswamp, making fishing and flirting his business while there. Deserts a country girl, “Lett,” to make love to the new teacher, Miss Hungerford.—Sally Pratt McLean, _Cape Cod Folks_ (1881). =Gurth=, the swine-herd and thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.—Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Gurton= (_Gammer_), the heroine of an old English comedy. The plot turns upon the loss of a needle by Gammer Gurton, and its subsequent discovery sticking in the breeches of her man Hodge.—Mr. J. S., Master of Arts (1561). =Guse Gibbie=, a half-witted lad in the service of Lady Bellenden.—Sir W. Scott, _Old Mortality_ (time, Charles II.). =Gushington= (_Angelina_), the _nom de plume_ of Lady Dufferin. =Gusta´vus Vasa= (1496-1560), having made his escape from Denmark, where he had been treacherously carried captive, worked as a common laborer for a time in the copper-mines of Dalecarlia [_Da´.le.karl´.ya_]; but the tyranny of Christian II. of Denmark induced the Dalecarlians to revolt, and Gustavus was chosen their leader. The rebels made themselves masters of Stockholm; Christian abdicated, and Sweden henceforth became an independent kingdom.—H. Brooke, _Gustavus Vasa_ (1730). =Gus´ter=, the Snagsbys’ maid-of-all-work. A poor, overworked drudge, subject to fits.—C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1853). =Gusto Picaresco= (“_taste for roguery_”). In romance of this school the Spaniards especially excel, as Don Diego de Mondo´za’s _Lazarillo de Tormes_ (1553); Mateo Aleman’s _Guzman d’Alfarache_ (1599); Guevedo’s _Gran Tacano_, etc. =Guthrie= (_John_), one of the archers of the Scottish guard in the employ of Louis XI—Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_ (time, Edward IV.) =Gutter Lyrist= (_The_), Robert Williams Buchanan; so called from his poems on the loves of costermongers and their wenches (1841- ). =Guy Carleton.= Wealthy young Englishman who is converted from skepticism by the gentle leadings of the child Fleda, and never forgets her. He meets her eight or nine years afterward and marries her.—Susan Warner, _Queechy_ (1852). =Guy Morville.= High-spirited, generous youth, whose religious faith helps him to overcome a fiery temper. He dies, while on his bridal tour of fever contracted in nursing his cousin Philip, his rival and enemy.—C. M. Yonge, _The Heir of Redclyffe_. Guy (_Thomas_), the miser and philanthropist. He amassed an immense fortune in 1720 by speculations in South Sea stock, and gave £238,292 to found and endow Guy’s hospital (1644-1724).