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JOHN, an early English poet, a contemporary and friend of Chaucer; born about 1330. His chief works are his "Thinker's Mirror," "Voice of One Crying," and "Lover's Confession," of which the first was a moral tract relative to the conjugal duties, written in French rhymes (now lost); the second a metrical chronicle of the insurrection of the commons under Richard II., in Latin elegaic verse; and the third an English poem in eight books, containing 30,000 lines, relative to the morals and metaphysics of love, one of the earliest ducts of the English press, being printed by Caxton in 1483. He died about 1408.
GOYAZ (gō-yäz'), the central state of Brazil, in the dry plateau region, rising in the S. to an important range of mountains; area 288,546 square miles; pop. about 542,000. The Tocantins river traverses most of the state from S. to N., and receives the Araguay, which forms the W. boundary; the S. frontier is marked by the Paranahyba. The climate in the S. is healthy, but in the N. malignant fevers are common, and the cattle are subject to goiter. Stock-raising is the chief industry.
GOZO (got'sō), an island in the Mediterranean, 4 miles N. W. of Malta and belonging to Great Britain; with the adjacent smaller island of Comino, area 26 square miles; pop. over 20,000. The surface is hilly, but the soil fertile. Chief town Rabato, near the center of the island.
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