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Corin

the faithful shepherdess; called “the Virgin of the Grove.” [Br. Lit.: “The Faithful Shepherdess” in Brewer Handbook, 234]
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As a group, these diviners of London's "needs, urges and insights" have been around "since Gogmagog and Corineus, since Mithras and the rest" (183).
Brute's son Corineus wrestled with the giant Gogmagog near Dover, and, as Holinshed tells it, "cast him downe headlong from one of the rocks there, thus winning the battle against the old order of giants." For this reason, Holinshed adds, "the place was named long after, the fall or leape of Gogmagog, but afterward it was called The fall of Dover." (62) Gogmagog had his place in Munday's pageant celebrating the "new Brute, King James" and may also lie behind Shakespeare's moment of restoration at the end of his tragedy.
(20) The quarto of Locrine (1594) (21) begins with the spectacle of Ate, an underworld figure, entering with thunder and lightning (A3r), and later in the play the ghost of Corineus enters with the same special effects, describing them and their implications: