Again to view the foremost opening page,
And there the beauty, sex, and tender age
Of her beholds, in whose pure mind arose
Th' ethereal source from whence this current flows?
For perpetuating her memory, provision was made for a sermon to be preached in Westminster abbey, on Ash Wednesday for ever.
GILLOT, (LOUISA, &c.)
A French lady, known in the nineteenth century by many works which were well received.
GINASJ, (CATERINA)
An excellent female painter, of whom it suffices to say, that all the pictures in the church of the monastery of S. Lucia, in Rome, are the work of her hands, although designed by Lanfranck.
GODEWYCK, (MARGERITA) a Dutch Paintress, born at Dort 1627, died 1677.
She had a fine taste for painting landscapes, and also excelled in working embroidery.
GODIVA, Wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, temp. Edward the Confessor,
Famed as the deliverer of Coventry from many oppressive laws. The story, as taken from a M.S. in Bib. Bod and Math. Paris, is as follows:
"This Leofric married Godiva, a most beautiful and devout lady, sister of one Thorold, sheriff of Lincoln-
