Duessa

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Duessa

witch, stripped of lavish disguise, found to be hideous hag. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]

See : Ugliness

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Meanwhile Duessa had led the Red Cross Knight to the house of Pride.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

So likewise the witch Duessa is both Papal Falsehood and Mary Queen of Scots; Prince Arthur both Magnificence and (with sorry inappropriateness) the Earl of Leicester; and others of the characters stand with more or less consistency for such actual persons as Philip II of Spain, Henry IV of France, and Spenser's chief, Lord Grey.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

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