Chapter Gabble Retchet to Galasp of G by Brewer's Readers Handbook

saw with his bodily eyes and touched with his hands “the incarnate Saviour,” reproduced by the consecration of the elements of bread and wine. Other persons see the transformation by the eye of faith only, but sir Galahad saw it bodily with his eyes.

Then the bishop took a wafer, which was made in the likeness of bread, and at the lifting up [the elevation of the host] there came a figure in the likeness of a child, and the visage was as red and as bright as fire; and he smote himself into that bread; so they saw that the bread was formed of a fleshly man, and then he put it into the holy vessel again … then [the bishop] took the holy vessel and came to sir Galahad as he kneeled down, and there he received his Saviour … then went he and kissed sir Bors … and kneeled at the table and made his prayers; and suddenly his soul departed … and a great multitude of angels bear his soul to heaven.—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur, iii. 101–103 (1470).

N.B.—Sir Galahalt the son of sir Brewnor, must not be confounded with sir Galahad the son of sir Launcelot.

Galahalt (Sir), called “The Haut Prince,” son of sir Brewnor. He was one of the knights of the Round Table.

N.B.—This knight must not be confounded with sir Galahad the son of sir Launcelot and Elaine (daughter of king Pellês).

Galantyse , the steed given to Graunde Amoure by king Melyzyus.

And I myselfe shall give you a worthy stede,
Called Galantyse, to help you in your nede.
   —Hawes: The Passe-tyme of Plesure, xxviii. (1515).

Galaor (Don), brother of Amadis of Gaul. A desultor amoris, who, as don Quixote says, “made love to every pretty girl he met.” His adventures form a strong contrast to those of his more serious brother.—Amadis of Gaul (fourteenth century).

A barber in the village insisted that none equalled “The Knight of the Sun” [i.e. Amadis], except don Galaor his brother.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, I. i. 1 (1605).

Galapas, a giant of “marvellous height” in the army of Lucius king of Rome. He was slain by king Arthur.

[King Arthur] slew a great giant named Galapas … He shortened him by smiting off both his legs at the knees, saying, “Now art thou better of a size to deal with than thou wert.” And after, he smote off his head.—Sir T. Malory: History of Prince Arthur, i. 115 (1470).

Galaphron or Gallaphrone , a king of Cathay, father of Angelica.—Bojardo: Orlando Innamorato (1495); Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (1516).

When Agrican … besieged Albracca …
The city of Gallaphrone, whence to win
The fairest of her sex, Angelica.
   —Milton: Paradise Regained, iii. (1671).

Galasp, or rather George Gillespie, mentioned by Milton in Sonnet, x., was a Scottish writer against the independents, and one of the “Assembly of Divines” (1583–1648).