- GUYON, SIR
- a knight in Spenser's "Faërie Queene," the impersonation of temperance and self-control; he subdued the sorceress Acrasia (i. e. intemperance), and was the destroyer of her "Bower of Bliss."
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
GUYON, SIR
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