=Gwilt= (_Miss_), plotter and betrayer, in Wilkie Collins’s novel, _Armadale_. =Gwynne= (_Nell_), one of the favorites of Charles II. She was an actress, but in her palmy days was noted for her many works of benevolence and kindness of heart. The last words of King Charles were, “Don’t let poor Nellie starve!”—Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_ (time, Charles II.). =Gyas and Cloan´thus=, two companions of Æne´as, generally mentioned together as “fortis Gyas fortisque Cloanthus.” The phrase has become proverbial for two very similar characters.—Virgil, _Æneid_. The “strong Gyas” and the “strong Cloanthus” are less distinguished by the poet than the strong Percival and the strong Osbaldistones were by outward appearance.—Sir W. Scott. =Gyges= (_2 syl._), one of the Titans. He had fifty heads and a hundred hands. _Gyges_, a king of Lydia, of whom Apollo said he deemed the poor Arcadian Ag´laos more happy than the King Gyges, who was proverbial for his wealth. _Gyges_ (_2 syl._), who dethroned Candaulês (_3 syl._), king of Lydia, and married Nyssia, the young widow. Herodotos says that Candaulês showed Gyges the queen naked, and the queen, indignant at this impropriety, induced Gyges to kill the king and marry her (bk. i. 8). He reigned B.C. 716-678. _Gyges’s Ring_ rendered the wearer invisible. Plato says that Gyges found the ring in the flanks of a brazen horse, and was enabled by this talisman to enter the king’s chamber unseen, and murder him. Why did you think that you had Gyges’ ring, Or the herb [_fern seed_] that gives invisibility? Beaumont and Fletcher, _Fair Maid of the Inn_, i. 1 (1647). =Gyneth=, natural daughter of Guendŏlen and King Arthur. The king promised to give her in marriage to the bravest knight in a tournament in which the warder was given to her to drop when she pleased. The haughty beauty saw twenty knights fall, among whom was Vanoc, son of Merlin. Immediately Vanoc fell, Merlin rose, put an end to the jousts, and caused Gyneth to fall into a trance, from which she was never to wake till her hand was claimed in marriage by some knight as brave as those who had fallen in the tournament. After the lapse of 500 years, De Vaux undertook to break the spell, and had to overcome four temptations, viz., fear, avarice, pleasure, and ambition. Having succeeded in these encounters, Gyneth awoke and became his bride.—Sir W. Scott, _Bridal of Triermain_ (1813). =Gyp=, the college servant of Blushington, who stole his tea and sugar, candles, and so on. After Blushington came into his fortune he made Gyp his chief domestic and private secretary.—W.T. Moncrieff, _The Bashful Man_. =Gyptian= (_Saint_), a vagrant. Percase [_perchance_] sometimes St. Gyptian’s pilgrymage Did carie me a month (yea, sometimes more) To brake the bowres [_to reject the food provided_], Bicause they had no better cheere in store. G. Gascoigne, _The Fruites of Warre_, 100 (died 1557).