But shall I say, to giue tnee graue aduise,

(Which in my head is (God he knowes full) geazon ?) Then marke me well, and though I be not wise,

Yet in my rime, thou maist perhaps find reason. Gascoigne. Councell geuen to Master Bartholomew Withipall.

The maners of the men I purpose to declare,

And other priuate points besides which strange and geazon are.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 387.

The lady, hearkning of his sensefull speech,
Found nothing that he said, vnmeet nor geason,
Hauing oft seene it tride, as he did teach.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. vi. c. 4.

Erickmon when that followed her

Vnpitied, not vnpearst,

Reform'd his wits, his sute and hope

Of her, not now as earst,

And scorn'd her mind, that scorned his loue

To her so firmly geason.

For why shee off'red double wrong,
To wrong and scorne a reason.

Warner. Albion's England, b. vii. c. 36.

GECK. Ger. Geck, gauch; Dut. Gheck; Sw. Geck; Dut. Ghecken; Sw. Geckas, ludificare, deridere; to make sport of, to deride.

Any one derided or mocked; and thus, a fool; a jest, mockery or derision.

Why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious gecke and gull,
That ere inuention plaid on? Tell me why?

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act v. sc. 1. To taint his nobler heart and braine with needlesse jelousy, And to become the geeke and scorne o' th' other's vilany. Id. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 4. See the quotation from Hake

GEHENNA.

will.

Thus Ahas made molten images for Baalim, and burnt his children for sacrifice before the idoll Moloch, or Saturne, which was represented by a man like a brasen body bearing the head of a calfe, set vp not far from Hierusalem, in a valley shadowed with wood, called Gehinnon, or Tophet, from whence is the word Gehenna vsed for hell.

Hakewill. Apologie, b. iv. c. 1. s. 6.
-The wisest heart

Of Solomon, he [Moloch] led by fraud to build
His temple right against the temple of God,
On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove
The pleasant vally of Hinnon, Tophet thence
And black Gehenna call'd, the type of Hell.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. i.
See GELLY.

GELATINOUS. GELD, v. Dut. Ghelt-en; Ger. Gelden; GE'LDER. Sw. Galla; A. S. Gylte, casGELDING, n. tratus, not improbably from the verb Gild-an, to yield or give up.

To yield or cause to yield or give up; and thus, to deprive, (sc. of an essential part or portion,) to mutilate.

For the met. usage, see the quotation from Wilson.

Holland (Ammianus, p. 429.) renders incisis by guelding or cutting.

For ther ben geldyngis whiche ben thus born of the modirs wombe, and ther ben geldyngis that ben maad of men, and ther ben geldyngis that han geldid himself for the rewme of hevenes. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 19.

And the gelding seide, lo watir, who forbedith me to be baptised.-Id. Dedis, c. 8.

A voice he hadde, as smale as hath a gote,
No berd hadde he, ne never none shoulde have,
As smoothe it was as it were newe shave;

I trowe he were a gelding or a mare.

Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 693. This yere [the 11th of Wyllyam the Red] also the ii. Erles of Shrewesbury and of Chester, eyther named Hugh, by the King's comaudement, entred with theyr knyghtes ye Ile of Man or Anglesaye, & slewe therein many Welshmen, and gelded many inoo.-Fabyan, vol. i. c. 225.

Now geld with the gelder the ram and the bull.

Tusser. September's Husbandry.

A duke well accompanied, sent from the emperor, presented him from the emperor a coach and ten geldings for the more easy conueying of him to Mosco, from whence this citie [Yeraslave] was distant five hundred miles."

Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 459. Vnto who Orfines sayde: I haue hearde that women in times past haue reigned, and born great rule in Asia, but it is now a more straunge thyng that a geldyng should haue the empire in his handes.-Brende. Quint. Curtius, fol. 289. Gelding, signifieth a subduing of our affections, and taming the foul lust of pleasure, vnto the will of reason.

Wilson. The Arte of Rhetorique, p. 97.

With like aduantage on the other side,
Gelding the opposed continent as much,
As on the other side it takes from you.

Id. 1 Pt. Hen. IV. Act ii. sc. 1. Panionius, of the Isle of Chios, was by his trade, a dealer in buying and selling of slaves, and by whom himself had formerly been gelt, and made an eunuch. Usher. Annals, an. 3524. A guelding never casts his teeth, no not his sucking teeth, in case he were guelded before.-Holland. Plinie, b. xi. c.37.

Shortly after Cyrus being come to himself again, some of his eunuchs (which were men gelt, and grooms of his chamber) that were about him, did lift him up, thinking to set him upon another horse, and to get him out of the preass: but he was not able to sit on his horse. North. Plutarch, p. 791.

He [Sir Roger De Coverley] has bequeathed the fine white gelding, that he used to ride a hunting upon, to his chaplain, because he thought he would be kind to him, and has left you all his books.-Spectator, No. 517.

Riding a showy horse, whipping a pair of geldings, or four in hand, through the fashionable streets, and sauntering in a stable, are, indeed, in the present Age, some of the most glorious methods of spending the sprightly days of youth, when privileged by the early possession of a fortune. V. Knox, Ess. 35. GE'LID. Lat. Gelidus, from Gel-are, to keel or cool. See To CONGEAL.

Cool or cold; cold to excess. To what cool cave shall I descend, Or to what geled fountain bend?

Marvel. Works, vol. iii. p. 273.

A various spirit, fresh, delicious, keen,
Dwells in their gelid pores; and, active, points
The piercing cyder for the thirsty tongue.

Thomson. Autumn.
Here too infix some moss-grown trunks of oak
Romantic, turn'd by gelid lakes to stone,
Yet so dispos'd as if they ow'd their change
To what they now control.

GE'LLY. GE'LATINE. GELA'TINOUS.

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Mason. The English Garden, b. iii. See JELLY. Fr. Gelée, Cotgrave says, is frozen, congealed, thickened or stiffened with extreme cold. Gelée, a frost, also gelly. And Skinner, Gelly, a gelando; succus frigore concretus;— That which thickens or stiffens, concretes or coagulates in cooling; and gelatinous-consequentially is,

Sticky, adhesive; viscous.

And, spreading on the grownd
Their watchet mantles fringed with siluer rownd,
They softly wipt away the gelly blood

From th' orifice; which hauing well vpbownd,
They poured in soveraine balme and nectar good,
Good both for medcine and for hevenly food.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 4.

You shall always see their [insects] eggs laid carefully and commodiously up, if in the waters, in neat and beautiful rows oftentimes in that spermatick gelatine matter in which they are reposited.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. vi. c.6.

I offered to rise at my usual time, but was desired to sit still, with this kind expression, Come, Doctor, a gelly or a conserve will do you no harm; don't be afraid of the dessert.-Tatler, No. 258.

One of them [crabs] of a thick, tough, gelatinous consistence, and the other a sort of membranaceous tube or pipe, both which are probably taken from the rocks.

Cook. Third Voyage, b. iv. c. 1.

The gelatinous substance, known by the name of star shot, or star gelly, owes its origin to this bird [the common gull] or some of the kind; being nothing but the halfdigested remains of earth-worms, on which these birds feed, and often discharge from their stomachs.

Pennant. British Zoology. Common Gull. GELT, i. e. the gilt or gold. Lineage and virtue at this push, Without the gell's not worth a rush.

GEM, v. GEM, n. GEMMARY. GEMMEOUS. GEMMY.

King. Ulysses & Tiresias. A. S. Gym, gym-stan; which Junius thinks is from Gym-an, to watch or guard carefully; as gems usually are so preserved. Fr. Gemme; It. Gemma; Lat.

To bud forth; to put forth, to cover with buds; to stud, to decorate or adorn, as with gems.

But nathles this Markis hath do make
Of gemmes, sette in golde and in asure,
Broches and ringes, for Grisilda's sake.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8131.

This gemme of chastitee, this emeraude,
And eke of martirdome the rubie bright.

Id. The Prioresses Tale, v. 13,539. Thy brothyr Troylus eke, that gemme of gentle deedes, To thinke howe he abused was, alas my heart it bleedes. Gascoigne. Dan Bartholomew of Bathe. Wherefore I hold not with it, that the Virgin Mary should be painted so in silkes and golden garments, and decked with gemmes and pearles, as though she had any delight in such a thinge, when she was on earth here.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. i. c. 10.
Last

Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spred
Thir branches hung with copious fruit; or gemm'd
Thir blossoms.

Miiton. Paradise Lost, b. vii.

And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,.
Adorn'd with gemmes and owches wondrous fayre,
Whose passing price uneath was to be told.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10.

I will not conceale from you that which poets doe fable of this matter, who would beare us in hand, that all began at the rocke Caucasus, whereunto Prometheus was bound fast, who was the first that set a little fragment of this rocke within a peece of yron; which being done about his finger, was the ring, and the foresaid stone the gem.

Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvii. c. 1. The Proeme. The principle and most gemmary affection is its tralucency. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 1 The shining circlets of his golden hair, Which ev'n the Graces might be proud to wear, Instarr'd with gems and gold, bestrow the shore, With dust dishonour'd, and deform'd with gore.

Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xvij.

Not venal, you request no eastern stores,
Where ruddy waters lave the gemmy shores.
Grainger. Tibullus, Elegy 2. b. ii.

In the vase mysterious fling

Pinks and roses gemm'd with dew,
Flow'rs of ev'ry varied hue,

Daughters fair of early Spring.-Jones. The Muse Recalled.

I, like an idle truant, fond of play,

Doting on toys, and throwing gems away.

Grasping at shadows, let the substance slip.

Churchill. Dedication to his Sermons.

If every polish'd gem we find

Illuminating heart or mind,

Provoke to imitation;

No wonder Friendship does the same,

That jewel of the purest flame,

Or rather constellation.-Cowper. Friendship.

The blue is of an inexpressible splendor, the richest cœrulian glowing with a gemmeous brilliancy.

Pennant. British Zoology. Gemmeous Dragonet.

But hast thou seen their king in rich array,
Fam'd Oberon, with damask'd robe so gay,
And gemmy crown, by moonshine sparkling far,
And azure sceptre, pointed with a star.-Philips, Past. 6.
By magic sleight

A Sura's lovely form he wore,

Rob'd in light, with lotos crown'd,
What time th' immortals peerless treasures found
On the churn'd ocean's gem-bespangled shore.

GE/MEL. GIMAL. GIMBAL.

Jones. Hymn to Surya. Skinner says, Gemelles, a word of heraldry, manifestly from Lat. Gemellis, barrs gemelles, i. e. Biga seu par barrarum seu vectium, two or a pair of bars. In Brewer's Lingua, Act ii. sc. 4, a character is described, in a grave satin suit, purple buskins, a garland of bays and rosemary, a gimmal ring with one link hanging: of which kind of ring, Skinner says, Annulus Gemellus, because it consists of two or more circles. It is also written Gemmow.

The quadrin doth never double; or, to use a word of heraldry, never bringeth forth gemels: the quinzain too soon. Drayton. The Barons' Wars, b. i. Pref. For under it a cave, whose entrance streight Clos'd with a stone-wrought doore of no meane weight: Yet from itselfe the gemels beaten so That little strength could thrust it to and fro.

Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. li. s. 3,

Whence 'tis manifest, that his answers do not proceed upon set gimals or strings, whereof one being struck moves the rest in a set order, (which we have shew'd is the course in all actions done by beasts :) but, out of a principle within him, which of itself is indifferent to all things. Digby. Of Man's Soul, c. 8. Truly this argument hangeth togither by verie strange gimbols.-Holinsked. Description of Ireland, vol. vi. c. 2. Two gemells unde, silver, between two griffins passant. Strype. Life of Smith, c. 1. Note a.

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GEMINATE, v. Fr. Géminer; It. GemiGEMINATION. nare; Sp. Geminar; Lat. GE'MINOUS. Geminare, to double; from Geminus, quasi genimus, from the ancient Geno, (as the Gr. Foviuos, from rev-ev.) to bring forth or produce. Applied emphatically, when two are brought forth at the same parturition; and thus, to geminate is, consequentially

To double; to repeat a second time, to reduplicate.

(d.) Is but the v. geminated in the full sound, and though it have the seate of a consonant with us, the power is always vowellish, even where it leads the vowell in any syllable.

B. Jonson. The English Grammar.

Whereunto while men assent, and can believe a bicipitous conformation in any continued species, they admit a gemination of principal parts, not naturally discovered in any animal.- Brown, Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 15.

For if he will be in the sense, and in the conscience both, there is a gemination of it.

Bacon. A Table of Colours of Good and Evill, s. 8.

And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births, and double connascencies with several names; as conceiving in them a distinction of souls, upon the divided execution of their functions.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 15.

Domitian, that now sways the power of things,
Is so inclined to blood, that no day passes
In which some are not fasten'd to the hook

Or thrown down from the Gemonies.

Massinger. The Roman Actor, Act i. sc. L
As, to-day,

The fate of some of your servants! who declining
Their way, not able, for the throng, to follow,
Slipt downe the Gemonies, and brake their necks!

GENDARMES. GENDARMORY.

B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act v. sc. 1.

Skinner says,-Gendarme, a word which I have met

with only in the English Dictionary, à Gens d'Armes, men of arms or armed men. And Cotgrave,

"A man of arms; an horseman armed at all points, one that serves in compleat armour, and on a great horse."

When the Peers withdrew, it seems the proofs about his design of raising the North, or the city, or of the killing the gendarmes, did not satisfy them: for all these had been without question treasonable.

Burnet. Hist. of the Reform. an. 1551.

Palmer, being a second time examined, said, that Sir Ralph vane was to have brought two thousand mer., who, with the Duke of Somerset's one hundred horse, were on a muster day to have set on the gendarmourie.-Id. Ib.

So there were ten letters written in October, and directed to certain of the chief officers of the army, to have the gendarmory and bands of horsemen which were appointed there, in a readiness to be seen by his majesty the Sunday following Hallon-tide next, being the 8th of November. Strype. Memorials, an. 1551.

GENDER, v. I Fr. Gendre, from the ablative GENDER. genere, from the verb gignere; Gr. Teve, to beget. See ENGENDER. To beget, to procreate, to breed. In Shakespeare, the noun is applied to-kind of people, sort of people.

Suilk on wild he take

His euenhed in mariage, gentille gendrure to make.
R. Brunne, p. 253.

Reson ich sauh sotthliche suwen alle beastes
In etynge and drynkyng. in gendrynge of kynde.
Piers Plouhman, p. 222.
For in Crist Jesus I haue gendrid ghou bi the ghospel.
Wiclif. 1 Cor. c. 4.
And Isaac gendride Iacob and Iacob gendride the twelue
patriarkis. Id. Dedis, c. 7.

And thus ful oft gendred is enuie

In folkes hearts.-Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. 1.
Ne neuer thinke

To busie my witte for to swinke
To knowe of her significations
The gendres, ne distinccions

Of the tymes of hem.-Chaucer. House of Fame, b. i.
What earthly chances would betide; what yere
Of plenty storde, what signe forewarned derth,
How winter gendreth snow.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Death of Zoroas. Their bullocke gendreth, and that not oute of tyme: their cowe calueth, and is not unfruitfull.-Bible, 1551.

Matter can gender nothing of itself.

H. More. Def. of Philosophic Cabbala, App. c. 3.
The other motiue

Why to a publike count I might not go,

Is the great loue the generall gender beare him,
Who dipping all his faults in their affection,
Would, like the spring that turneth blood to stone,
Conuert his gyues to graces.

Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 7.

All pretty fellows are also excluded to a man, as well as all inamoratoes, or persons of the epicene gender, who gaze at one another in the presence of ladies.-Tatler, No. 27. Pards gender pards; from tigers tigers spring; No doves are hatch'd beneath a vulture's wing. Wilkie. The Epigoniad, b. i.

Gender being founded on the distinction of the two sexes, it is plain, that in a proper sense, it can only find place in the names of living creatures, which admit the distinction of male and female; and, therefore, can be ranged under the masculine or feminine genders.—Blair, vol. i. Lect. 8.

GENEALOGY. GENEALOGICAL.

GENEALOGICK.

GENEALOGIST.

Fr. Généalogie; It. and Sp. Geretogig, Lat. Cred nealogia ; Gr. Γενεαλογία, from yevea, genus, kind,

and eyew, to speak, to say.

A discourse on kinds or families, of their descent or succession; a pedigree.

This is the genelogie frö S. Margarete the quene
Of kynges bi & bi in kynde that has bene.

R. Brunne, p. 111. Firste he is seid kyng of righteousnesse, and afterward kyng of Salem, that is to sei king of pees, withoute fadir, withoute modir, withoute genealogie.—Wiclif. Hebrewis, c.7. But the trouth if ye list verifie Rede of goddes the genealogie.

Lidgate. The Story of Thebes, pt. iii. This therefore is the only and very Messias whose geneatogie & petigre shall forthwith be showed, touchyng the body which he toke for our cause.-Udal. Matthew, c. 1. For, if the Spirit of God did not our faith assure The scriptures be from heaven, like heaven divinity pure, Of Moses' mighty works, I reverently may say, (I speak with goodly fear) tradition put away, In power of human wit it easily doth not lie To prove before the flood the genealogy.

Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 10. Which genealogicall recapitulation in their nationall families and tribes, other people also haue observed; as the Spaniards, who reckon their descent from Hesperus, before the Gothes and Moors ouerran their land.

Holinshed. England, b. vi. c. 10.

They [heathen philosophers] do indeed describe the genea logies of their Heroes and subordinate Gods, but for the supreme Deity he is constantly acknowledged to be without beginning of time, or end of days.

Wilkins, Natural Religion, b. i. c. 8.

There are many incidental verities, historical, geographical, genealogical, chronological, &c. which common Christians are obliged rather implicitly to admit, or not to deny, than explicitly to know, or treasure up in their minds. Waterland. Works, vol. viii. p. 106.

The Apostle in the preceding verse [1 Tim. i. 5.] had warned Timothy against giving heed to fables and endless genealogies; by genealogies, meaning the derivation of angelic and spiritual ratures, according to a fantastic system, invented by the Oriental philosophers, and thence adopted by some of the Grecian Sects.-Hurd. Works, vol. vi. Ser. 8.

An old Roman grafted on a modern Englishman, produced [Lord Chatham] the golden fruit of true patriotisın, real, personal greatness, and nobility unindebted to a genealogical table.-V. Knox. Letters to a Young Nobleman, Let. 55.

He [Hondius] also engraved a genealogic chart of the Houses of York and Lancaster, with the arms of the Knights of the Garter to the year 1589, drawn by Thomas Talbot. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii. c. 1. With whatever delight, however, the Cambrian genealogist might pursue the line of his ancestry, a barren catalogue of uncouth names would furnish no entertainment for the reader.-Lord Teignmouth. Life of Sir W. Jones.

I leave the rest to the genealogist; and go no farther back in his pedigree than to his grandfather, of the same name, who distinguished himself in the civil wars of the last century.-Hurd. Life of Warburton.

GENERAL, n. GENERAL, adj. GENERALI'SSIMO. GENERA'LITY. GENERALIZE. GENERALIZA'TION. GENERALLY. GENERALNESS. GENERALSHIP.

GENERALTY.

Fr. Général; It. Generale; Sp. General; Lat. Generalis, (see GENERATF,) of or pertaining to the kind.

Of or belonging, or pertaining to all of the kind, race or family: comprising or relating to all or the greater number, part or portion opposed to special, as genus to species; common to particular -and thus, not restricted, or confined, or limited, to special or particular; common, customary, usual.

A general, (sc.) of an army, of an order of friars. Fr. Général d'une armée, des frères. It. Generale; Sp. Genéral, one who has the general authority, conduct, or command.

I bidde thee teache hem, wost thou how?
By some generall signe now
In what place thou shalt founden be.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose.
She sobre was eke, simple, and wise withall,
The best ynorished eke that might be,
And goodly for her spech in generall.-Id. Troilus, b. v.

My sone, ful often for to mochel speche
Hath many a man ben split, as clerkes teche;
But for a litel speche avisedly

Is no man shent, to speken generally.

Ye shall note the order) of the four monarchies) which order is here expressed) that the veray time wherin God wold haue Cryste borne shuld be knowne) and the time of the general resurreccion of the dead) and the iugement shulde be signifyed and foresene. Joye. Exposicion of Daniel, Argument,

Pericles was a famous man of warre,
And victor eke, in nine great foughten fields,
Whereof he was general in charge;
Yet at his death he rather did rejoice
In clemencie, than bloudy victory.

Gascoigne. The Steele Glas. And it hath no appearaunce of lernyng in Scriptures, to conclude vnder one cosideratio a specialte, & a generalitie.

Bp. Gardner. Of the Presence in the Sacrament, fol. 58. Her grace likewise on her side, in al her graces passage, shewed herselfe generallye an image of a worthy lady and gouernour.-Fabyan, vol. ii. Queen Elizabeth, an. 1559.

They had, with a general consent, rather springing by the generalness of the cause than of any artificial practice, set themselves in arms.-Sidney.

But breath his faults so quaintly
That they may seeme the taints of liberty;
The flash and out-breake of a fiery minde,
A sauagenes in vnreclaimed blood,

of generall assault.-Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act ii. sc. 1. Amongst which ships (being all of small burthen) there was one so well liked, which also had no man in her, as being brought unto the generall, [Sir F. Drake] he thought good to make stay of her for the service, meaning to pay for her, as also accordingly performed at our return; which bark was called the Drake.

Sir F. Drake. West India Voyage, p. 5. Whence is it else that the generality of the world live in the cominission of those that they call little sins, but because their hearts are hardned and their consciences seared, that those sins that are great enough to damn them, yet are not great enough to trouble them ?-Hopkins, Ser. 7.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 10.

The mind, therefore, makes its utmost endeavours to generalize its ideas, begins early with such as are most familiar, comes in time to those that are less so, and is never at rest till it has found means of conceiving, as well as it ean, its ideas collectively, and of siguifying them in that manner to others.

Bolingbroke. Essay on Human Knowledge, s. 5. This has led some philosophers to suppose, that another faculty besides abstraction, to which they have given the name of generalisation, is necessary to account for the formation of genera and species; and they have endeavoured to shew that although generalisation without abstraction is impossible; yet that we might have been so formed, as to be able to abstract, without being capable of generalising.-Stewart. On the Human Mind, c. 4. s. 1.

Look, when you will, into sessions-papers, and other accounts of bad people, who have suffered for their crimes, and you will generally find they began by neglecting the Sabbath.-Gilpin, vol. it. Ser. 30.

Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene when he fought the Turks at the battle of Belgrade.

Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer, Act ii.

GENERATE, v. GENERABLE.

GENERANT.

GENERATION.

GENERATIVE.
GENERATOR.

GENITAL.

GENITALS.

GENITIVE.

GENITOR.

GE'NITURE.

gate.

Fr. Générer; It. Generare; Sp. Generar; Lat. Generare; Gr. Tevel, to beget. See GENDER. "To beget or ingende., as the male; to breed or bring forth, as the female," (Cotgrave.)

To beget, to procreate, to breed, to produce, bear or bring forth, to propa

A generation is (also) applied to a race or family; those living in one age or period of time.

And he sorowynge wythynne in spirit seyde, what seeketh this generacioun, a tokene? truli I seye to you, a tokene schal not be govun to this generacioun.-Wiclif. Mark, c. 8.

And he syghthed in his sprete & said: why doth this generacio seke a sygne? Verely I saye unto you, there shal no signe be geuen vnto this generacyon.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Others say, that the forms of particular worlds are gene rable and corruptible; so that our present system cannot have sustain'd an infinite duration already gone and expired.-Bentley. Confutation of Atheism, Ser. 6.

But Jupiter, whiche was his sonne,
And of full age, his father honde,
And kyt of with his owne honde
His genitalles, which also faste
In the depe sea he caste.

Gower, Con. A. b. v.

S. Cubba whiche was in those daies the mother of al Nonnes, was generate of an whore, as wer all her father's children besides her, ii. of the only excepted.

Bale. English Votaries, pt. i.

Forsouthe this generacioun is lyke vnto chyldren syttyng in the market place, which with a common song cry thus to theyr felowes afarre off: we have played you pleasaunt thynges vpon our pypes, and ye haue not daunced: and we haue played you sorowfull thynges and ye haue not wayled. Udal. Matthew, c. 11. Whan this priest should dye, he slytte off his genitallis, and threwe them to the Deuyll. Bale. English Votaries, pt. ii.

They, I say, that were the wise fathers and genitors of this purgatory, were, in my minde, the wisest of all their generation, and so farre passe the children of light, and also the rest of their company, that they both are fooles, if ye compare them with these.

Latimer. A Sermon before the Convocation of the Clergy. Wherein sponges or linen clothes beinge dept, shulde be layd on ye hed, & the genitores or legges therewith washed. Sir T. Elyot. The Castel of Helth, b. iv. c. 2. But we speak here of the original life of the soul itself, that this is substantial, neither generable nor corruptible, but only createable and annihilable by the Deity. Cudworth. Intellectual System, p. 862. Pythagoras must also have held, if Democritus had all his philosophy from his writings or traditions, that there are infinite worlds, and that they are generable and corruptible, but that the matter is unperishable.

H. More. Defence of Philosophic Cabbala, App. Some believe the soul made by God, some by Angels, and some by the generant: whether it be immediately created or traduced hath been the great ball of contention. Glanvill. Scepsis, c. 3.

And now we think it seasonable here to observe, how vast a difference there was betwixt those old materialists in Aristotle, and those other philosophers mentioned before in the first chapter, who determined, ουδεν ουδε γιγνεσθαι ουδε φθείρεσθαι των όντων. That no real entity at all was generated or corrupted, for this reason, because nothing could be made out of nothing.-Cudworth. Intellectual System, p.114.

The children of this world, that are in the estate which Adam left them in, shall marry, and be given in marriage; that is, corrupt and generate successively; which is an immortality of the kind, but not of the persons of men. Hobbs. Of the Kingdom of Darkness.

For much more eath to tell the starres on hy,
Albe they endlesse seeme in estimation,
Then to recount the sea's posterity:

So fertile be the flouds in generation,
So huge their numbers, and so numberless their nation.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 12.

As many therefore as are apparently to our judgment borne of God, they haue the seed of regeneration by the ministerie of the church, which vseth to that end and purpose not onely the word, but the sacraments, both hauing generatiue force and vertue.

Hooker. Ecclesiasticall Politie, b. v. § 50.

Thus from the fact of Lot. we derive the generation of Ruth, and blessed Nativity of our Saviour; which notwith

standing did not extenuate the incestuous ebriety of the generator.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. v. c. 21.

These tenuous vapours, at length descending in a chrystalline liquor, and mingling with the finest parts of the newly modified earth, will doubtless compose as genital a matter as any can be prepared in the bodys of animals.

Glanvill. Pre-existence of Souls, c. 14.

And Minutius Felix further relates, That it was reported, and believed among the heathen, That the Christians, in their private meetings, were given to incest, and all manner of uncleanness. That they worshipped the head of an ass, and even the genitals of their high priest. Grew. Cosmo-Sacra, b. v. c. 6. different apprehensions under one notion, by putting in the The Hebrews express this union, or comprising of two genitive case the word which expresses one of them. Digby. Of Man's Soul, c. 2.

To which may be added this other sufficient natural reason, That if a son marries his mother, she who is in authority greater by right of geniture, becomes minor in matrimonio, less upon the same material account upon which she became greater.

Bp. Taylor. Rule of Conscience, b. ii. c. 2. Rule 3.

mate body cannot act otherwise than by his heat; which heat can only put the particles of passive principle into motion.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii.

To these might be added some other uses and conveniences; as that the hills serve to the generation of minerals and metals, and that in them principally are the most useful fossils found; or if not found and generated only in them, yet at least all these subterraneous treasures are most easily come at in them.-Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iii. c. 4.

One thing relating to generation I cannot omit; that is, the construction of a set of temporary parts, (like scaffolds in a building) to serve a present end, which are afterwards laid aside, afford a strong argument of counsel and design. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii

I am apt to allow it, in reference to some bodies, certain other faculties and powers, among which some may be called generative and maturative, and others corruptive. Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 713.

This work, by merit first of fame secure,
Is likewise happy in its geniture:
For since 'tis born when Charles ascends the throne
It shares at once his fortune and its own.

Dryden. Epistle to Sir Robert Howard. Notwithstanding these and many other circumstances, sufficient, one might at first view have imagined, to have generated courage, and secured attachment in all his followers, yet they all abandoned him in his distress-"forsook him and fled"-" the shepherd was smitten, and the sheep were scattered."-Bp. Watson. Ser. 2 Peter, i. 16.

A point, concerning property, which ought, for the reasons I just mentioned, to be most speedily decided, frequently exercises the wit of successions of lawyers, for many genera tions.-Burke. Vindication of Natural Society.

Its varied power to various uses tends,
And qualities occult achieve contrarious ends;
With generative warmth fomenting breed,
Or alimental with nutrition feed.

Brooke. Universal Beauty, b. i.

GENEROUSLY.

Fr. Généreur; It. and Sp. Generoso; Lat. Generosus; GENEROUSNESS. from genus, kind. Generous, GENERO'SITY. says Vossius, is opposed to degenerate, (a genere recedere,) to depart from the kind or nature; emphatically, the noble or illustrious kind or race. And thus, generous, is,—— Noble or illustrious, (by birth or descent;) nobly minded; liberal or munificent; magnanimous, courageous.

The generous, and grauest citizens
Haue hent the gates, and very neare vpon
The duke is ent'ring.

Shakespeare. Meas. for Meas. Act iv. sc. 6.

But if your charges see you bear your sickness patiently, and your cross nobly, and despise money generously, and forgiue your enemy bravely, and relieve the poor charitably; then he sees your doctrine is tangible and material, it is more than word, and he loves you, and considers what you say.-Bp. Taylor, vol. iii. Ser. 10.

They little think their heirs in time to come

Will scorn this sneaking copy, and find reason
With husty generousness to make their sum
Suit with the brave magnificence of treason:

When for a king (how much less precious?) they
Two hundred thousand pounds will freely pay.
Beaumont. Psyche, . 11.

With these shreds
They vented their complainings, which being answer'd
And a petition granted them, a strange one
To breake the heart of generosity,

And make bold power looke pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the hornes o'th moone, Shouting their emulation.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Acti. sc.1.

All men affect to seem generous, and will say, they scorn to be base but generosity is in nothing more seen, than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities; to this generosity of nature, generosity of education, generosity of principles and judgment do all conspiringly dispose.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 19.

If there be one whose riches cost him care.
Forth let him bring them for the troops to share ;
'Tis better generously bestow'd on those,
Than left the plunder of our country's foes.
Pope. Homer. Iliad, b. xviii.

I should not have presumed to this dedication, had I not been encouraged by that generousness and sweetness of dis

position, which does so eminently adorn your lordship's place and abilities.-Wilkins. Mercury, Ded

Indeed, the hopes of the Republic are greatly turned towards Octavius; as there is nothing which his generous thirst of glory, 'tis believed, will not animate him to perform.

Melmoth. Cicero, b. xii. Let. 27.

In chastising his enemies, he [Henry IV. of France] could not but remember they were his people, and knowing they were reduced to the extremity of famine, he generously conniv'd at the methods practised to supply them with provision.-Goldsmith, Ess. 13.

We have not (as I conceive) lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century; nor as yet have we subtilized ourselves into savages.

Burke. On the French Revolution.

GENET. Junius says,-Fr. Genét d'Espagne ; It. Ginetto di Spagna. A horseman, equipped with armour of a peculiar description, was first called in Sp. Ginete, and afterwards the word was transferred to the horses themselves. Minshew derives the word (genet, a kind of horse) from the Latin; optimæ generationis caballus; a horse of the best breed or blood. See JENNET.

And also we haue xx. thousande of other mouted on genettes cap a pee.-Berners. Froissart. Cron. vol. i. c. 236.

At our comming to the governor's house, we found the great doore (where the moyles do usually unlade) even then opened a candle lighted upon the top of the stayers; and a faire gennet ready sadled, either for the governour himself or some other of his household to carry it after him.

Sir Francis Drake Revived, p. 13.

It seems to me no more likely that frogs should be engendred in the clouds, than Spanish gennets begotten by the wind; for that hath great authors too.

Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. The delicacy of a gennet, a barb, or an Arabian horse, is much more amiable than the strength and stability of some horses of war or carriage.

Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt. iii. s. 16. GENET, or "Fr. Genét,-a kind of weesel, Je'NNET. black spotted, and bred in Spaine," (Cotgrave.) Skinner thinks it may be so called from Guinea, because first noticed there by Europeans.

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A warrant to Sir Andrew Dudley, to deliver to Robert Robotham, yeoman of the robes, to keep for the king one fur of black jennets, taken out of a gown of purple cloth of silver tissue.-Strype. Memorials. Edw. VI. an. 1552.

GENETHLIACAL. Fr. Genethliaque; Lat. GENETHLIA'TIC. Genethliacus; Gr. FeVelλiakos, from yevelλn, and this from Yeve, gignere, to bear or bring forth.

One who forms predictions from the natal day, or day of birth.

The night immediately before he was slighting the art of those foolish astrologers, and genethliacal ephemerists, that use to pry into the horoscope of nativities. Howell. Vocal Forest. The truth of astrological predictions is not to be referred to the constellations: the genethliaticks conjecture by the disposition, temper, and complexion of the person. Drummond.

Genius is applied to

A supposed tutelary god, whose province it was to take care of every one from the time of his birth; whence the more modern genii; to

The nature, the natural powers or faculties of a man; the powers or faculties with which he is born.

The natural bent, disposition or inclination of the mind; and, peculiarly, to

The power or faculty which bears or brings forth, or produces; which finds out, discovers, invents. Also, to a man endowed or distinguished by this power or faculty.

Genial, belonging or pertaining to the nature; natural; agreeable to nature; kind, lively. They in that place him Genius did call:

Not that celestiall powre, to whom the care Of life, and generation of all

That lines, pertains, in charge particular, Who wondrous things concerning our welfare, And strange phantomes doth let vs oft foresee, And oft of secret ill bids us beware.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 12.

Whether the soul receives intelligence
By her near Genius, of the body's end,
And so imparts a sadness to the sense
Foregoing ruin, whereto it doth tend.

Daniel. Civil War, b. ili.
And thou glad Genius! in whose gentle hand
The bridall bowre and geniall bed remain
Without blemish or stain. Spenser. Epithalamion.
he retired to, and mostly lived in, the city of Westminster.
His Geny [D'Avenant's] being chiefly enclined to poetry,

Wood. Athena Oxon.

And though some constitutions are genially disposed to this mentall seriousness; yet they can scarce say, Nos numeri sumus.-Glanvill. The Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 12.

Thus some men are genially disposited to some opinions, and naturally as averse to others. Id. Ib. c. 13.

Astonish'd at the sight, the hero paid
New rites, new honours, to his father's shade,
Doubts if the demon of his sire rever'd,
Or the kind Genius of the place appear'd.

Pitt. Virgil. Eneid, b. v.
Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist.
Pope. Preface to the Iliad.
Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, "Tis for mine:
For me kind Nature wakes her genial power;
Suckles each herb and spreads out every flower."
Id. Essay on Man, Ep. 1.
But whence these various inclinations rose,
The God of Human Nature only knows!
That mystic genius, which our actions guides,
Attends our stars, and o'er our lives presides;
Whose power appears propitious, or malign,
Stamp'd on each face, and varied through each line.
Francis. Horace, b. ii. Epis. 2.

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By genius I would understand that power, or rather those powers of the mind, which are capable of penetrating into all things within our reach and knowledge, and of distinguishing their essential differences.

Fielding. History of a Foundling, b. ix. c. 1.

Genius always imports something inventive or creative; which does not rest in mere sensibility to beauty where it is perceived, but which can, moreover, produce new beauties, and exhibit them in such a manner as strongly to impress

the minds of others.-Blair, vol. i. Lect. 3.

So that, of course, the grand genial power of the system, that visible God the Sun, would be soon regarded by them as a most beneficent Deity; and thunder and lightnings, storms and tempests, which his qualities produced, would be considered as the effects of his anger.

Warburton. The Divine Legation, b. iii. s. 6.

Or whether clearer skies and softer air,
That make Italian flowers so sweet and fair,
Fresh'ning his lazy spirits as he ran ;
Unfolded genially and spread the man.

Beyond the vast Atlantic deep

Cowper. Progress of Error.

A dome by viewless genii shall be raised, The walls of adamant compact and steep, The portals with sky-tinctur'd gems emblazed. Jones. The Muse Recalled. An Ode.

GENT. GENTE EL. GENTE ELY. GENTE ELNESS. GENTILITY. GENTLE, v. GENTLE, adj. GENTILESS. GENTLENESS. GENTLESHIP. GENTLY. GENTRY.

Fr. Gent, gentil; It. Gentile; Sp. Gentel, from the Lat. Gens, and this from genus. Cicero, in his Topica, (c. 6,) enumerates as partitions or divisions necessary for the complete definition of gentilis; 1. Qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. 2. Qui ab ingenuis oriundi sunt. 3. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. 4. Qui capite non GENTLE-WOMAN. sunt deminuti. And it is from a just pride in the rank, the honour, the nobility of family, that our modern applications of gentle, genteel, &c. derive their origin.

GENTLE-MAN.

Genteel is applied to the manners, address or dress, of persons of rank; and, therefore, of fashion; and thus, is equivalent to

Polished or polite, elegant, graceful.

Gentle is,-born of or descended from a good family; and thus, inheriting or possessing the virtues or generous qualities of such family; and, therefore, applied to such qualities, namely, to

Courteousness or urbanity of manners or disposition; affability, mildness; freedom from roughness or rudeness, coarseness, grossness or vulgarity; thus, is equivalent to—

Courteous, affable, mild, meek.

Gent is a common word in our old writers, generally expressing the softer qualities of the female sex,

Meek, kind, tender; and, as opposed to gross, vulgar, in Chaucer, (Tyrwhitt,) neat and pretty. See the quotations from Sir Thomas Smith and Gibbon. The words in our old writers are very variously written.

So that the kynge's neuew, and the erle's neuew of Kent,
That twei zonge bacheleres noble were and gent.
In this noble companye strif bigonne arere,
So that the erle's neuew that other slowzt there.

R. Gloucester, p. 53.

So large he was & so hende, & al so de bonere ;
So hardy and so gentil, and of so vayr manere.

Id. p. 167.
Thy fayre body so gentyl vor suolwe he wole to nygt.
Id. p. 205.
Gengyl men that he vond in prison ek ydo
Other in warde myd vnrygt, he brogte hem out also.
Id. p. 323.
That he hadde rewthe of hym, and for ys genterise
Made ys pes with the emperour with oute feyntyse.
Id. p. 57.
The kyng hem vayre vndervong, and honoured in eah wyse,
An gret deuyte tolde of hem, vor her gentryse.
Id. p. 316.

The erle this lady gent gaf Henry his sonne,
Alle his tenement, that his eldres was wonne.

R. Brunne, p. 213

Gentille of nurture, & noble of lynage,

Was non that bare armure, that did suilk vassalage.
R. Brunne, p. 188.
The kyng therof was blithe, forgaf him gentilly.
Id. p. 134
Tuo old gentille-men Edrik did forfare,
The ton hight Sigiferd, the tother Sir Morgare.-Id. p. 46.
After ther soiornyng, whan that thei suld wende,
He praid tham of alle thing, as gentille men & hende
To haf saf condite, vnto the new kastelle.-Id. p. 80.
Popes and patrones, poure gente! blod refuseth.
Piers Plouhman, p. 79.
Wurshupde hure meny
Id. p. 38.

Gentelich w joye.

For love hath undertake That thes J. H. C. of hus genterise. shal jouste in Peers

armes.

But wel I wot, expresse withouten lie
God bad us for to wex and multiplie;
That gentil text can I wel understand.

Id. The Wif of Bathes Prologue, v. 5611.

But who is so vertuous

And in his part not outrageous,
Whan such one thou seest thee beforn,
Though he be not gentill borne,

Thou maiest well seine (this is in soth)
That he is gentill, because he doth
As longeth to a gentilman.

Id. Rom. of the Rose.

And though to me ye be right lefe and dere
Unto my gentils, ye be nothing so.

Id. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8356.

And Emelie him loveth so tenderly,
And he hire serveth al so gentilly,
That never was ther no werd hem betwene
Of jealousie, ne of non other tene.

Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 3106.

For som folk wol be wonnen for richesse,
And som for strokes, and som with gentillesse.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3357.

And therefore who so list it not to here,
Turne over the leaf, and chese another tale,
For he shal find ynow bothe gret and small,
Of sterial thing that toucheth gentilesse,
And eke moralite and holinesse.

Id. The Milleres Prologue.

And certes, he shulde not be called a gentilman, that after God and good conscience, alle thinges left, ne doth his diligence and besiness, to kepen his good name.

Id. Tale of Melibeus.

Foraine genlilnesse ne maketh thee nat gentill. But certes if there be any good in gentilnesse, I trow it be all onely this, that it seemeth as that a maner necessite be imposed to gentilman, for that they ne shuld not outragen or fore leauen fro the vertues of her noble kind.-Id. Boecius, b. iii.

For hart fulfilled of gentilness

Can euill demeane his distresse.-Id. Rom. of the Rse.
What maner woman art thou? quod he,
I am a gentilwoman borne, quad she.

Id. The Second Nonnes Tale, v. 15,833.

Also to have pride of gentrie is right gret folie: for oft time the gentrie of the bodie benimeth the gentrie of the soule: and also we ben al of o fader and of o moder: and all we ben of o nature rotten and corrupt, both riche and poure.-Id. The Persones Tale.

What say we eke of hem that deliten hem in swearing, and hold it a genterie or manly dede to swere gret othes.

Id. Ib.

I thanke you my father dere
This schole is of a gentyll lore.—Gower. Con. A. b. i.

And for to loke on other side,
Howe that a gentilman is bore:
Adam, whiche was all to fore,
With Eue his wife, as of hem two
All was aliche gentill tho.

Id. Ib. b. iv.

For commonliche in worthie place
The women louen worthinesse
Of manhode, and of gentilnesse,
For the gentiles be most desired.
His wife, forth with his doughter alle,
So as the happes shulde falle,
With many a gentilwoman there,
Dreint in the salte sea they were.

Now Remeneth this nobyll kyng,

Id. Ib.

Id. Ib. b. v.

The emperour after his doughter hadd longyng;

To speke with that May,

Messengeres forth he sent

Aftyr the mayde fayre and gent,

That was bryght as someres day.

Emare. Ritson, vol. ii.

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Eyther the communers onlye must be welthy, and the gentyl and noble men needy and miserable: or elles excludyng gentylilie, al men must be of one degre and sort, and a new name pronided.-Sir T. Elyot. Governor, b. i. p. 2.

I might perceaue a wolf as white as whales bon, A fairer beaste, of fresher hue, beheld I neuer none, Saue that her lokes were coy and forward eke her grace, Unto the which this gentle beast gan him advance apace. Surrey. Song of a Lady who refus'd to Daunce with him, Thus they that were desolate were recoforted by the lordes that they resorted vnto, who had pyte on them, as it was reason, for noblenesse of gentylnesse ought to be aided by nobles and gentyls. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 401.

But Cæsar sommoning before him the noble men of euery citie, partlie by putting them in feare in declaryng that he knewe of their doings, & partlie by entreating them gentlye, kept the greater part of Gallia in dew obedience & quietness. Goldinge. Cæsar, fol. 140.

I stirred him still toward gentlenesse;
And causde him to regard fidelitie.

Wyat. Complaint vpon Loue, &c.

But, madam, moneye can do much,
she brings a wealthie wyfe,
Bringes trustie frinds, gentrie, & stocke
all pleasures of thys lyfe.

Drant. Horace. Epistle to Numitius.

No, nor those same handy craft men of yours in cities, nor yet the rude and uplandish ploughman of the country, are not supposed to be greatly afraid of your gentleman's idle serving-men, unless it be such as be of body or stature correspondent to their strength and courage; or else whose bold stomachs be discouraged through poverty

Sir T. More. Utopia, by Robinson, b. i. Some in France, which will needs be jentlemen, whether men will or no, and have more jentleshippe in their hat than in their head, be at deadlie feude, with both learning and honestie. Ascham. Schole Master, b. i.

The quene herself shall be led away captive, and her gentilwomen shal mourne as the doues, and grone within theyr heartes-Bible, 1551. Of Nahum, c. 2.

He lov'd, as was his lot, a lady gent,

That him again lov'd in the least degree;
For she was proud, and of too high intent,
And ioyd to see her louer languish and lament.

Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9.
She that was noble, wise, as faire and gent,
Cast how she might their harmlesse liues preserue,
Zeale was the spring whence flow'd her hardiment,
From maiden's shame yet was she loth to swerue.
Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. ii. s. 17.

What should tempt the cheap swearer to open his black throat as wide as hell, and to belch out his blasphemies against Heaven, and the God of Heaven, but only that he fancies that a well-mouthed oath will make his speech the more stately and genteel.

Hopkins. Ser. On First Commandment.

I will not be drunk in the streets, but I may sleep till I be recovered, and then come forth sober; or if I be overtaken it shall be in civile and gentile company.

Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 7. The surname is the name of the gentilitie and stocke, Romans did.-Sir T. Smith. Commonwealth, b. iii. c. 8. which the sonne doth take of the father alwaies, as the old

Gens in Latine betokeneth the race and sirname, so the Romanes had Cornelios. Sergios, Appios, Fabios, Æmilios, Pisones, Julios, Brutos, Valerios, of which who were agnate, and therefore kept the name, were also gentiles, and remaining the memorie of the glory of their progenitor's fame, were gentlemen of that or that race.-Id. Ib. b. i. c. 20.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers:
For he to day that sheds his blood with me,
Shall be my brother: be he ne'er so vile
This day shall gentle his condition.

Shakespeare. Henry V. Act iv. sc. 3.
For, all so soone as life did me admit
Into this world, and shewed heauen's light,
From mother's pap I taken was vnfit,

And straight deliuer'd to a fairy knight To be vp brought in gentle thewes and martiall might. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 9. But the fair virgin was so meak and milde, That she to them vouchsafed to embase Her goodly port, and to their senses vild Her gentle speech applide, that in short space She grew familiar in that desert place.

Id. Ib. b. iii. c. 7.
Ford. I thinke I shall drinke in pipe-wine first with him,
I'l make him dance. Will you go, Gentles?

Shakespeare. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. sc. 3.
When to the place they came where Artegall
By that same careful squire did them abide,
He gently gan him to demaund of all
That did betwixt him and the squire betide.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1.

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But fare you well: perforce I must confesse,

I thought you Lord of more true gentleness.
Shakespeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, Act ii sc. 3.

He [Artaxerxes] was a prince of much humanity, and noted for many examples of gentleness. Ralegh. History of the World, b. iii. c. 7. s. 7. least their vertues do make noble and knowne. The Latines Gentlemen be those whom their race and bloud, or at the call them nobiles and generosos, as the French do nobles or gentlehommes.-Holinshed. Description of England, c. 5.

Nay, looke you, Carlo: this is my humour now! I have land and money, my friends left me well, and I will be a gentleman whatsoeuer it cost me.

Car. A most gentleman-like resolution.

B. Jonson. Every Man out of his Humour, Act i. sc. 2.

If he can derive himselfe from the head of any sept, (as most of them can, they are so expert by their bardes,) then hee holdeth himselfe a gentleman, and thereupon scorneth to worke, or use any hard labour, which, he saith, is the life of a peasant or churle, but thenceforth becometh either an horse boy, or a stocah to some kerne, inuring himselfe th his weapon, and to the gentlemanly trade of stealing, (as they count it.)-Spenser. View of the State of Ireland.

After that the king put away Edith the Queen onely of displeasure conceyued agaynst her father, and appoynted that she should be kept in safe custody in the abby of Rodwell by the Abbess there, without any honourable entertaynement, havyng one gentle-woman only to wait vpon her.-Grafton. Edward the Confessor, an. 1045.

If it will please you

Spectator, No. 230.

The bride

Barrow, vol. 1. Ser. 5.