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Gryll

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Let Gryll be Gryll, and keep his hoggish mind. Donʹt attempt to wash a blackamoor white; the leopard will never change his spots. Gryll is from the Greek gru (the grunting of a hog). When Sir Guyon disenchanted the forms in the Bower of Bliss some were exceedingly angry, and one in particular, named Gryll, who had been metamorphosed by Acraʹsia into a hog, abused him most roundly. “Come,” says the palmer to Sir Guyon,

Let Gryll be Gryll, and have his hoggish mind.

But let us hence depart while weather serves, and wind.”


 

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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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Ground Arms (To)
Groundlings
Grove
Growlers
Grub Street
Gruel
Grumbo
Grundy
Grunth
Gruyère
Gryll
Gryphon (in Orlando Furioso)
Gryphons
Guadiana
Guaff
Guano
Guarantee
Guard
Guards of the Pole
Guarinos (Admiral)
Gubbings