- Sir Guyon
Sir Guyon is a knight in Spenser's "
Faerie Queene ," the personification of temperance and self-control; he subdued the sorceress Acrasia (i. e. intemperance), and was the destroyer of her "Bower of Bliss."
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sad — adjective /sæd/ a) Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. And thus they strekyn forth into the stremys, many sadde hunderthes. b) Appearing sorrowful. Vprose Sir Guyon, in bright armour clad, / And to his purposd iourney him prepard: / With him the … Wiktionary
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