=Gal´way Jury=, an independent jury, neither to be brow-beaten nor led by the nose. In 1635, certain trials were held in Ireland, respecting the right of the Crown to the counties of Ireland. Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, and Mayo gave judgment for the Crown, but Galway stood out, whereupon each of the jury was fined £4000. =Ga´ma= (_Vasco da_), the hero of Camoëns’s _Lusiad_. Sagacious, intrepid, tender-hearted, pious, and patriotic. He was the first European navigator who doubled the Cape of Good Hope (1497). Gama, captain of the venturous band, Of bold emprise, and born for high command, Whose martial fires, with prudence close allied, Ensured the smiles of fortune on his side. Camoens, _Lusiad_, i. (1569). ⁂ Gama is also the hero of Meyerbeer’s posthumous opera called _L’Africaine_ (1865). =Gam´elyn= (3 _syl._), youngest of the three sons of Sir Johan di Boundys, who, on his death-bed, left “five plowes of land” to each of his two elder sons, and the residue of his property to the youngest. The eldest son took charge of Gamelyn, but treated him shamefully. On one occasion he said to him, “Stand still, gadelyng, and hold thy peace.” To which the proud boy retorted, “I am no gadelyng, but the lawful son of a lady and true knight.” On this, the elder brother sent his servants to chastise him, but he drove them off “with a pestel.” At a wrestling match young Gamelyn threw the champion, and carried off the prize ram; but on reaching home found the door closed against him. He at once kicked the door down, and threw the porter into a well. The elder brother now bound the young madcap to a tree, and left him two days without food; but Adam the spencer, unloosed him; and Gamelyn fell upon a party of ecclesiastics, who had come to dine with his brother, and “sprinkled holy water on them with a stout oaken cudgel.” The sheriff sent to apprehend the young spitfire, but he fled with Adam into the woods, and came upon a party of foresters sitting at meat. The captain gave him welcome, and Gamelyn in time became “king of the outlaws.” His brother being sheriff, would have put him to death, but Gamelyn hanged his brother on a forest tree. After this the king appointed him chief ranger, and he married.—The Coke’s _Tale of Gamelyn_, formerly attributed to Chaucer. ⁂ Lodge has made this tale the basis of his romance entitled _Rosalynd_ or _Eupheus’ Golden Legacye_ (1590); and from Lodge’s novel Shakespeare has borrowed the plot, with some of the character and dialogue, of _As You Like It_. =Gamelyn de Guar´dover= (_Sir_), an ancestor of Sir Arthur Wardour.—Sir W. Scott, _Antiquary_ (time, George III.). =Gamester= (_The_), a tragedy by Ed. Moore (1753). The name of the gamester is Beverley, who in despair commits suicide; and the object of the play is to show the great evils of gambling.