Gath (g hard)
,in Dryden’s satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means Brussels, where Charles II. long resided while he was in exile.
Tell it not in Gath. Donʹt let your enemies hear it. Gath was famous as being the birthplace of the giant Goliath.
“Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.”—2 Sam. i. 20.
