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sounds, she was declared to be a pure virgin; but if it gave forth hideous noises, she was denounced and never seen more. Corinna put the grotto to the test, at the desire of Glaucon of Lesbos, and was never seen again by the eye of man.—Lord Lytton: Tales of Miletus, iii. (See Chastity, p. 198, for other tests.)

Grouses Day (Saint), the 12th of August.

They were collected with guns and dogs to do honour to…St. Grouse’s day.—London Society (“Patty’s Revenge”).

Groveby (Old), of Gloomstock Hall, aged 65. He is the uncle of sir Harry Groveby. Brusque, hasty, self- willed, but kind-hearted.

Sir Harry Groveby, nephew of old Groveby, engaged to Maria “the maid of the Oaks.”—Burgoyne: The Maid of the Oaks.

Groves (Jem), landlord of the Valiant Soldier, to which was attached “a good dry skittle-ground.”—Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop, xxix. (1840).

Grub (Jonathan), a stock-broker, weighted with the three plagues of life— a wife, a handsome marriageable daughter, and £100,000 in the Funds, “any one of which is enough to drive a man mad; but all three to be attended to at once is too much.”

Mrs. Grub, a wealthy City woman, who has moved from the east to the fashionable west quarter of London, and has abandoned merchants and tradespeople for the gentry.

Emily Grub, called Milly, the handsome daughter of Jonathan. She marries captain Bevil of the Guards.—O’Brien: Cross Purposes (1842).

Grub Street, near Moorfields, London, once famous for literary hacks and inferior literary publications. It is now called Milton Street—no compliment to our great epic poet. (See Dunciad, i. 38.)

I’d sooner ballads write and Grub Street lays.
   —Gay.

N.B.—The connection between Grub Street literature and Milton is not appare nt. However, as Pindar, Hesiod, Plutarch, etc., were Bœotians, so Foxe the martyrologist, and Speed the historian, resided in Grub Street.

Grubbinol, a shepherd who sings with Bumkinet a dirge on the death of Blouzelinda.

Thus wailed the louts in melancholy strain,
Till bonny Susan sped across the plain;
They seized the lass, in apron clean arrayed,
And to the ale-house forced the willing maid;
In ale and kisses they forgot their cares,
And Susan Blouzelinda’s loss repairs.
   —Gay: Pastoral, v. (1714).

(An imitation of Virgil’s Eclogue, v., “Daphnis.”)

Grudar and Brassolis. Cairbar and Grudar both strove for a spotted bull “that lowed on Golbun Heath,” in Ulster. Each claimed it as his own, and at length fought, when Grudar fell. Cairbar took the shield of Grudar to Brassolis, and said to her, “Fix it on high within my hall; ’tis the armour of my foe;” but the maiden, “distracted, flew to the spot, where she found the youth in his blood,” and died.

Fair was Brassolis on the plain. Stately was Grudar on the hill.—Ossian: Fingal, i.

Grudden (Mrs.), of the Portsmouth Theatre. She took the money, dressed the ladies, acted any part on an emergency, and made herself generally useful.— Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby (1838).