The earl’s greatest of all grandmothers Was grander daughter still to that fair dame Whose garter slipped down at the famous ball. Robert Browning, _A Blot on the ’Scutcheon_, i., 3. =Gartha=, sister of Prince Oswald of Vero´na. When Oswald was slain in single combat by Gondibert (a combat provoked by his own treachery), Gartha used all her efforts to stir up civil war; but Hermegild, a man of great prudence, who loved her, was the author of wiser counsel, and diverted the anger of the camp by a funeral pageant of unusual splendor. As the tale is not finished, the ultimate lot of Gartha is unknown.—Sir William Davenant, _Gondibert_ (died 1668). =Garth= (_Sip_), woman of the people, who “puts” everything “honest” to people. Shrewd, deep of heart and almost fierce of will, girding at her limitations, yet profoundly in sympathy with her fellow-sufferers, she becomes a valuable ally to her high-bred friend, Perley Kelso, in her efforts to bring comfort and beauty into the dwellings of the poor.—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, _The Silent Partner_ (1871). _Garth_ (_Caleb_), surveyor and land-agent. Excellent man, but better at lending than keeping money. _Mary Garth_, his daughter; sensible and true woman, with few graces of person and no affectations.—George Eliot, _Middlemarch._ =Gas´abal,= the ’squire of Don Galaor. Gasabal was a man of such silence that the author names him only once in the course of his voluminous history.—_Don Quixote_, I. iii. 6 (1605). =Gascoigne= (_Sir William_). Shakespeare says that Prince Henry “struck the chief justice in the open court;” but it does not appear from history that any blow was given. The fact is this: One of the gay companions of the prince being committed for felony, the prince demanded his release, but Sir William told him the only way of obtaining a release would be to get from the king a free pardon. Prince Henry now tried to rescue the prisoner by force, when the judge ordered him out of court. In a towering fury, the prince flew to the judgment seat, and all thought he was about to slay the judge; but Sir William said very firmly and quietly. “Syr, remember yourselfe. I kepe here the place of the kynge, your sovereigne lorde and father, to whom you owe double obedience; wherefore I charge you in his name to desyste of your wylfulnes.... And nowe for your contempte goo you to the pryson of the Kynges Benche, whereunto I commytte you, and remayne ye there prisoner untyll the pleasure of the kynge be further known.” With which words the prince being abashed, the noble prisoner departed and went to the King’s Bench.—Sir Thomas Elyot, _The Governour_ (1531).