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Phædria [wantonness]

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Handmaid of Acrasia the enchantress. She sails about Idle Lake in gondola. Seeing Sir Guyon she ferries him across the lake to the floating island, where Cymochʹles attacks him. Phædria interposes, the combatants desist, and the little wanton ferries the knight Temperance over the lake again. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, ii.)

 

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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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