754 G O Z 
third, or Lover’s Confeflion, is an Englirti poem in eight 
books, relative to the morals and metaphyfics of love. 
This alone has been printed ; and fuch was its reputa¬ 
tion, that it was one of the earliell produfts of the Eng- 
lirti prefs, being fet forth by Caxton in 1483. The lan¬ 
guage of this piece is reckoned tolerably perfpicuous, 
and the verification often harmonious. With refpeft 
to his Latin llyle, Mr. Warton gives him the credit of 
copying Ovid’s Elegiacs with fome degree of purity. 
He had not, however, got over the barbarifm of monk- 
ifh rhymes, thenfo much the vogue. 
GOWER’S ISLAND, a finall ilhmd in the Southern 
Pacific Ocean, vvhicli has no anchorage near it. Lat. 7. 
55. S. Ion. 158. 5<). E. Greenwich. 
GOW'LANS (Locker). See Trollius. 
GOWN,/', \_gonna, lia.\. giun, Wellh and Erfe.] A 
long upper garment : 
In length of train defcends her {weeding gown, 
And by her graceful walk the queen of love is known. 
Dry den. 
The long habit of a man dedicated to a< 51 s of peace, as 
divinity, medicine, law, &c.—The benefices are often fo 
me-ui in Irilh counties, that they v/ill not yield any com¬ 
petent maintenance for an honelt minifier, fcarcely to 
buy him a. gown. Spenjer. —The drefs of peace : 
He Mars depos’d, and arms to gowns made yield ; 
Sucrefsftil councils did him foon approve 
As fit for dole intrigties as open field. Dryden. 
GOWN'ED, adj. Drefied in a gown: 
In velvet white as fnow tlie troop was gown'd. 
The learns witli fp.irkling emeralds let around. Dryden. 
GOWN'MAN, f. A man devoted to the arts of 
peace; one whole proper habit is a gown: 
Let him with pedants , 
Pore out his life amongit the lazy gownmen. Rowe, 
GOW'RAN, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kil¬ 
kenny : fi.x miles ealt of Kilkenny. 
GOY'AS, a government of South America, in Bra¬ 
zil, which extends from 24. to 36. degrees of ion. well: 
Ferro, and from 6. 30. to 19. fouth lat. The number 
inhabitants of this valt extent of ciJuntry is efiiraated at 
8930 whites, 29,630 Indians, and 34,100 negroes. The 
ch.ief bulinefs is I'earching for gold in the mines, which 
were firlt dilcovered in the year 1726. 
GOYA'VA, a town of Africa, on the Grain Coall. 
GOY'A'VE, a town on the welt coaft of the iiland of 
Grenada, in the Well Indies. Lat. 12. 13. N. lon.-6i. 
3r.W. ot Greenwich. 
GOYA'VES, a town of the ifland of Gtiadaloupe, 
fituated in a bay to which it gives name. 
GO' j. EN (John Van), a painter of landfcapes, cat¬ 
tle, and fea-pieces, born at Leyden in 1596 ; the difci- 
ple of Vandervelde, the molt celebrated landfcape- 
painter of his time. Van Goyen very foon role into ge¬ 
neral elieem ; and his works are univerfally fpread 
through Europe. He died in 1656, aged 60. His bell 
works are valued fo highly in the Low Countries, that 
they defervedly afford large prices, being ranked in Hol¬ 
land with the piftures of Teniers. 
GOZ, or Go'zen, a feaport town of Africa, in the 
empire of Morocco, on the coall of the Atlantic, not far 
from Mogador. 
GO'ZA, or Go'zo, a fmall ifland in the Mediterra¬ 
nean, belonging to the knights of Malta, lituated a lit¬ 
tle to the north-well of Malta. The inhabitants of 
Gozo are laid to be more indulirious than thofe of 
Malta, as they are more fecluded from the world and 
have fewer inducements to idlenefs. T heir coverlits 
and blankets are much elleemed, and their lilk llockings 
remarkably fine ; fome, they pretend, have been fold 
for ten fequins a pair. The red kindof oranges are pro¬ 
duced from the common orange bud, engrafted on the 
G R A 
pomegranate (lock. The fugar cane is cultivated with 
luccefsin Gozo, though not in any confiderable quantity. 
GO'ZAN, a river of AlTyria, mentioned, 2 Kings xvi\, 
6 . xviii. II. xix. 12. i Chron. v. 26, IJ'aiah xxxvii. 12. 
GOZ'ZO Di CAN'DIA, a fmall ilkind, near the ifland 
of Candia, in the Mediterranean. Lat. 34. 58. N. Ion, 
41.31, E. Ferro. 
GRAAF, or Graef (Regner de), a phyfician and 
anatomill, born at Schoonhoven in Holland, in 1641. 
His father, Cornelius, an architebl, dillinguiflied him- 
felf by the invention of feveral hydraulic machines. 
Regner was brought up to phylic, and lludied fiiTt at 
Leyden, under James Sylvius, and then in France, where 
he graduated at Angers in 1665. He fettled at Delft, 
and became eminent in pradtice ; but v/as cut off at the 
early age of thirty-two, in 1673. His death was imput¬ 
ed to vexation, from the controverlies in which he w'as 
engaged with Swammerdam. De Graaf’s firll publica¬ 
tion W'as, De Sued Pancreatici Natura & Ufu, Leyden, 
1664, 121110. He next publiflied, De Virorum Organis Ge~ 
nerationi infervientibiis, 1668, 8vo. a work which gained 
him great anatomical reputation. In this work he was 
the firll who gave reprefentations of the tubes for ana¬ 
tomical injection ; an art in which he was very expert, 
and which he greatly improved. In 1672 he publiflied, 
De Mulierum Organis Qtneralioni infervientibus, 8vo. a work 
containing much that is interelling and valuable, lie- 
maintained in it the ovarian fyflem of generation, and 
gave figures of the corpora lutea, and the foetus in dif¬ 
ferent Hates of progrefs. A lliort time before his death, 
in 1673, he publiflied Partium Genitaliun De/enfw, in which 
he alferts his own claims to difeovery, in oppofition to 
thofe of Swammerdam, and adds fome new anatomical 
obfervations. All the works of De Graaf have been 
printed together in 8vo. Leyd. 1677; Lond. 1678; 
Amfl. 1705. 
GRAB', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz : feventeen miles well-nortli-well of Leitmeritz. 
GRA'BAT,/. [French ; from the Greek y^aQeoroq, a 
bed.] A little bed with curtains. Phillips. 
GRABATA'RII, f. [from ] In church liillo- 
ry, thofe perfons who were baptifed on their death-bedsl 
GRABAU', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kalilh : twenty miles fouth of Kalifli. 
GRABAW', a town of Poland, in tlie palatinate of 
Belcz : twenty-eight miles north-north-well of Belcz. 
To GRAB'BLE, v. n. [probably corrupted iromgrap¬ 
ple.'^ To grope; tO feel eagerly with the hands.—My 
blood chills about my heart at tlie thought of tliele 
rogues, witli their bloody hands grabbling and pulling- 
out my very entrails. Arbuthnot. 
To GRAB'BLE, v.a. To lie proftrate on the ground. 
Ainjworth. 
(jRABE (John-Enieft), a learned divine, and editor 
of the Alexandrian MS. in the royallibrary at London, 
born at Koningiberg, in Prullia, in 1666. He received 
his education at the univerfity in his native town, and 
when he had taken his degree of M. A. leduloufly ap¬ 
plied liimfelf to the Itudy of divinity, and to the perulal 
of the writings of the fathers. Fiom tlie latter he im¬ 
bibed the opinion that the outward and uninterrupted 
fucceflioii of bilhops is eflential to the being of a true 
church ; which, as it is contrary to the tenets of Luthe- 
ranifm, occafioned his being fummoned before his fii- 
periors, and confined for feveral months. Upon his 
releale, becoming Hill more firmly attached to that doc¬ 
trine, he determined to quit tlie communion in which 
he had,been educated, and came to England,'where he 
was lb Itrongly recommended to king William, that his 
majelly granted him a penfion of lool. a-year, to enable 
him to purfue his lludies. From this time he adopted 
England for his country; and lie fliewed that he-was 
not unworthy of the patronage which he received, by 
the attention and indullry which he bellowed on tlie 
publication of feveral learned works. In 1698, hepub'- 
X liilied, 
