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Good Duke Humphrey

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Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Henry IV., said to have been murdered by Suffolk and Cardinal Beaufort. (Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., iii. 2.)

CalledGood,” not for his philanthropy, but from his devotion to the Church. He was an out-and-out Catholic.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Goneril
Gonfalon
Gonfanon
Gonin
Gonnella’s Horse
Gonsalez [Gon-zalley]
Gonville College (Cambridge)
Good
Good-bye
Good-Cheap
Good Duke Humphrey
Good Folk (Scotch guid folk)
Good Form, Bad Form
Good Friday
Good Graces (To get into one’s)
Good Hater (A)
Good Lady (The)
Good Neighbours
Good Regent
Good Samaritan
Good Time

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