Chapter Guarinos to Guides of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

named Gyneth. After the lapse of three months Arthur left Guendolen, and the deserted fair one offered him a parting cup. As Arthur raised the cup a drop of the contents fell on his horse, and so burnt it that the horse leaped twenty feet high, and then ran in mad career up the hills till it was exhausted. Arthur dashed the cup on the ground, the contents burnt up everything they touched, the fairy palace vanished, and Guendolen was never more seen. This tale is told by Sir Walter Scott in The Bridal of Triermain. It is called Lyulph's Tale, from canto i. 10 to canto ii. 28. (See Gyneth.)

"Her mother was of human birth,
Her sire a Genie of the earth,
In days of old deemed to preside
O'er lover's wiles and beauty's pride.
Bridal of Triermain, ii. 3.

Guendolœna daughter of Corineus and wife of Locrin, son of Brute, the legendary king of Britain. She was divorced, and Locrin married Estrildis, by whom he already had a daughter named Sabrina. Guendolœna, greatly indignant, got together a large army, and near the river Stour a battle was fought, in which Locrin was slain. Guendolœna now assumed the government, and one of her first acts was to throw both Estrildis and Sabrina into the river Severn. (Geoffrey: Brit. Hist., ii. chaps. 4, 5.)

Guenever (See Guinever .)

Guerilla improperly Guerilla wars, means a petty war, a partisan conflict; and the parties are called Guerillas or Guerilla chiefs. Spanish, guerra, war. The word is applied to the armed bands of peasants who carry on irregular war on their own account, especially at such time as their Government is contending with invading armies.

"The town was wholly without defenders, and the guerillas murdered people and destroyed property without hindrance." - Lessing; United States, chap. xviii. p. 676.

Guerino Meschino [the Wretched ]. An Italian romance, half chivalric and half spiritual, first printed in Padua in 1473. Guerin was the son of Millon, King of Albania. On the day of his birth his father was dethroned, and the child was rescued by a Greek slave, and called Meschino. When he grew up he fell in love with the Princess Elizena, sister of the Greek Emperor, at Constantinople.

Guess (I). A peculiarity of the natives of New England, U.S. America.

Guest The Ungrateful Guest was the brand fixed by Philip of Macedon on a Macedonian soldier who had been kindly entertained by a villager, and, being asked by the king what he could give him, requested the farm and cottage of his entertainer.

Gueux Les Gueux. The ragamuffins. A nickname assumed by the first revolutionists of Holland in 1665. It arose thus: When the Duchess of Parma made inquiry about them of Count Berlaymont, he told her they were "the scum and offscouring of the people" (les gueux). This being made public, the party took the name in defiance, and from that moment dressed like beggars, substituted a fox's tail in lieu of a feather, and a wooden platter instead of a brooch. They met at a public-house which had for its sign a cock crowing these worde, Vive les Gueux par tout le monde! (See Motley. Dutch Republic, ii. 6.)
    The word gueux was, of course, not invented by Berlaymont, but only applied by him to the deputation referred to. In Spain, long before, those who opposed the Inquisition were so called.
   N.B. The revolters of Guienne assumed the name of Eaters, those of Normandy Barefoot; those of Beausse and Soulogne Wooden-pattens, and in the French Revolution the most violent were termed Sansculottes.

Gugner A spear made by the dwarf Eitri and given to Odin. It never failed to hit and slay in battle. (The Edda.)

Gui Le Gui (French). The mistletoe or Druid's plant.

Guiderius The elder son of Cymbeline, a legendary king of Britain during the reign of Augustus Caesar. Both Guiderius and his brother Arviragus were stolen in infancy by Belarius, a banished nobleman, out of revenge, and were brought up by him in a cave. When grown to man's estate, the Romans invaded Britain, and the two young men so distinguished themselves that they were introduced to the king, and