Iʹdleness
.The Lake of Idleness. Spenser says whoever drank of this lake grew “instantly faint and weary.” The Red Cross Knight drank of it, and was made captive by Orgoglio. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book i.)
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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.