Crossword-Solution: ILLUDE 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Little by little, as I came nearer, she ceased to illude me, and I began to think of her as ‘it.’ What ‘it’ was, however, I knew not until I was at quite close quarters to the pedestal it rose from.

The longer we gaze, the more surely does the picture illude us and enthral us, steeping us in that tragedy of 'the fruitless crown and barren sceptre.' We forget all else, watching the unkind witches as they await him whom they shall undo, driving him to deeds he dreams not of, and beguiling him, at length, to his doom.

But _Guyon_, in the heat of all his strife, 6 Was warie wise, and closely did awayt Auauntage, whilest his foe did rage most rife; 8 Sometimes a thwart, sometimes he strooke him strayt, And falsed oft his blowes, t'illude him with such bayt.

But > [But that it would have] knife > sword 5 But Guyon, in the heat of all his strife, 6 Was wary wise, and closely did await closely > closely; privately, secretly 7 Advantage, whilst his foe did rage most rife; rife > abundantly, copiously; _hence:_ violently 8 Sometimes athwart, sometimes he struck him straight, 9 And falsed oft his blows, to illude him with such bait.

Fly with the faithful youth, his steps to guide, Pierce the known thicket, breast the fordless tide, Illude the scout, avoid the ambush'd line, And lead him safely to his friends and thine; For thine shall be his friends, his heart, his name; His camp shall shout, his nation boast thy fame.