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the fea. Ealred, the abbot of Ryiiauxe, who tooke 
paynes to pen the hyftorie, faith, ‘ that wliile the king 
and Goodwine fate at the table, accompanied with others 
of the nobilitie, it chaunced the cup-bearer as lie brought 
wyne to the board to flip with the one foote, and yet, 
by good ftrength of his other leggc, to recover himfelf 
without falling; which thing the carle earneftly mark¬ 
ing, fayde, pleafantly, “ that there one brotlier had well 
helped another.” “ Marry,” quoth the king, “ fo 
might me mine, ne haddeft thou been, earle Goodwine” 
■—(carting in his diflie the murder of his brother Alfred, 
which was done to death at Elie by the counfell of 
Goodwine, as.hereafter, in iitte place for it, fhall ap¬ 
pear). Thereat the earle was fore moved ; and, think¬ 
ing it more than time to make his purgation, tooke a 
morfell of bread into his hand, and praying, with great 
and vehement obtertation, that it might choke him if 
he, by any means, caufed the flaughter or confented 
thereto, he put the bread into his mouth, and was im¬ 
mediately ftrangled therewithal!.’ 
GOOD'WIN SANDS, a bank in the fea, near the 
coaA of Kent, faid to have been formerly part of the 
ertate of earl Goodwin ; till, by negledt of prcferving 
the dikes and walls, the whole was drowned by the fea. 
They lie oppofite the town of Deal, at the dirtance of 
about five miles, extending norlh-north-eart and fouth- 
fouth-wert about four leagues. They were overflowed 
about the end of the reign of William Rufus, or the be¬ 
ginning of that of Henry I. as appears by the account 
given of them by William Lambard, in his “ Perambu¬ 
lation of Kent,” written in the year 1570, which is as 
follows-: “ Silvefter Giraldus, (in his Itinerarie of 
V/ales,) .and many others, doe write, that, about the 
end of the reigne of king William Rufus,'or the begin¬ 
ning of Henrie the Firll, there was a fodaine and mightie 
inundation of the fea, by the which a great part of 
Flaunders, and of the lowe countries there-about, was 
drenched and lort, fo that many of the inhabitants (be¬ 
ing thereby expulfed from their feates) came over into 
England, and made fuite to the fame king Henrie, for 
fome place of dwelling within his dominions. The 
king, pitying their calamitie, and feeing that they might 
bee profitable to his realme, by inrtrutting his people in 
the art of clothing, wherein at that time they chiefly 
excelled, firrt placed them about Carlille in the north 
countrie, and afterwards (upon caufe) removed them 
to Roffe and Hauerford in Wales. Now at the fame 
time that this happened in Flaunders, the like harme 
was done in fundrie places, bothe of England and Scot¬ 
land alfo; as He6lor Boethius, the Scottiflie hyrtorio- 
grapher, moll; plainly writeth, affirming, that, amongrt 
others, this place, being fome tyme of the poUeffion of 
the earle Goodwine, was then firrt violently over- 
’whelmed with a light fande, wherewith it not only re- 
maineth covered ever fince, but is become withall («a- 
Ttmn furges et vorago) 3 . moil dreadful guft'e, and Ihippe 
fwalouer.”—This large tradl of land was defended from 
the fea by a great wall, the maintaining of which in good 
and fufficient repair to refift the impetuofity of the 
W'aves, was fuch as to require the mort conrtant and re¬ 
gular attention. Thefe lands break oft' the force of the 
fea on the eaft and the fouth and fouth-weft, fo as to 
make the Downs a tolerable road ; but when the wind 
blows very hard at fouth-eaft or at eaft-by-north and 
eaft-north-eart, Ihips are frequently driven from their 
anchors, and are either forced on thefe fands, or obliged 
to run for Sandwich Bay or Ramfgate Pier. 
The Goodwin lands confirt of two parts, called the 
North and South fands; of thefe, the latter half lies 
nearly from north-north-eaft to fouth-fouth-weft towards 
the South Foreland, and the northern half lies nearly 
north and fouth, but rounds a little on the eaft fide, and 
is in mort places rteep, having indifferent good flioaling 
at the north end. This fund, by rtorms and llrong tides, 
partially alters every year; it is very broad, and a great 
part of it dries, but moll to the north end. In coming 
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in or going out of the Downs; a fhip rtiould come no 
nearer to the Goodwin Sands than thirteen fathoms. 
Their extent is known by the dirtance from the North 
to the South Sand Head ; and a fliip will be abreart of 
the latter, when Upper Deal Mill and Warner Cartle 
are in one, and abreart of the North Sand Head when 
the North Foreland bears at north-wert-by-wert. Ships 
that will work well may turn to twelve or fourteen fa¬ 
thoms all along the back of the Goodwin; and if the 
water fhoals on the other tack, it may be depended on 
as the Falls. 
A general •bfervation has been made of all fands 
which dry or become nearly fo at the ebb, with refpeCt 
to the currents and tides near them. The firll part of 
the flood and the lart part of the ebb will regularly fet 
as the edge of the fands lies; the fecond part of the 
flood and ebb will let bodily over fuch fands to the lee- 
tide channels ; and the lart part of the flood and firrt 
part of the ebb, will fet nearly as the regular tide does. 
But if the fands curve, as foon as the ends are under 
water, the young flood and correfponding ftate of the 
ebb will fet over the different ends into the curve, and 
on the other fide run as the fands lie. It is obfervable, 
for example, that the firrt of the flood on the Good¬ 
win Sand fets rtrong over the South Sand Head into 
the bight to the Bunt Head, and out again over the 
North Sand Head ; that the middle of the flood fets 
more over the fand for the Gull Stream ; and that the 
lart: of the flood fets nearly regular for the Foreland. 
And as to the ebb, it fets nearly regular for the South 
Foreland ; the middle more for the Gulls; and the lart 
over the North Sand Head for the Bunt, and out again 
over the South Sand Head. The depth of the channel 
alfo has been obferved to be nearly as follows ; that a 
little without the Flemiffi Banks there is from eighteen 
to twenty fathoms, and towards the Goodwin from 
twenty-fix to thirty, but the nearer to the Goodwin the 
deeper, and when a fhip is thwart of the Goodwin in 
from twenty-eight to twenty-nine fathoms, ftie is not 
two gun-rtiot from it. 
GOOD'Y, /. [corrupted from good A low term 
of civility tifed to mean perfons. 
Plain goody would no longer down ; 
’Twas madam in her grogram gown. Swift. 
GOOD'YSHIP, y. The quality of goody. Ludicrous: 
The more fhame for \\cr goodyjhip. 
To give fo near a friend the flip. Hudibras^ 
GOOLDS, or Gold, a word ufed by Spenfer for the 
corn-marygold, or Chrysanthemum fegetum. See 
vol. iv. 568. 
GOOLE, \_gouUt, Fr. ] A breach in a fea-bank or 
wall; ora paliage worn by the flux and reflux of the 
fea. i6 and 17 Car, II. c. n. 
GOOLL, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Taptee, eight miles fouth of Chuprah. 
GOOM'TY, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into 
the Ganges, fifteen miles north-north-eaft of Benares. 
GOOND'WANAH, a dirtridl of circarof Hindooftan, 
in the northern p.art of the country of Berar, now more 
generally called Nagpour. 
GOORACPOUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the 
country of Oude : lixty-five miles eaft of Fyzabad. 
Lat. 26,45. N. Ion, 83.35. E, Greenwich. 
GOOSE, /, plural, geefe-., [30]-, Sax. goesy Dutch ; 
gawcy Erfe, fing. gewty, plural.] A large water-fowl. 
For its natural hiftory, and various fpecies, fee the ar¬ 
ticle Anas, vol. i. p. 516. 
Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful 
Difturb with nightly noife the facred peace. Dryden. 
A tailor’s fmoothing iron.—Come in, tailor: here you 
may roaft your gooj'e, Skahfpeare. 
GOO'SE, a game with dice, ufually played by two 
perfonsj but it will readily admit of auny more. It 
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