Crossword-Solution: ACRASIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Pleasure > (The enchantress, Acrasia, so named at 212.1:8 and 212.48:8) 201.1 THat cunning Architect of cancred guile, 2 Whom Princes late displeasure left in bands, For falsed letters and suborned wile, 4 Soone as the _Redcrosse_ knight he vnderstands, To beene departed out of _Eden_ lands, 6 To serue againe his soueraine Elfin Queene, His artes he moues, and out of +caytiues+ +hands+ 8 Himselfe he frees by secret meanes vnseene; His shackles emptie left, him selfe escaped cleene.

Vaine man (said she) that wouldest be reckoned 6 A straunger in thy home, and ignoraunt Of _Ph{ae}dria_ (for so my name is red) 8 Of _Ph{ae}dria_, thine owne fellow seruaunt; For thou to serue _Acrasia_ thy selfe doest vaunt.

Then gan Sir _Guyon_ all the story shew 6 Of false _Acrasia_, and her wicked wiles, Which to auenge, the Palmer him forth drew 8 From Faery court.

Acrasy > Irregularity; disorder; intemperance, _all these being personified by_ Acrasia 212.1 NOw gins this goodly frame of Temperance 2 Fairely to rise, and her adorned hed To pricke of highest praise forth to aduance, 4 +Formerly+ grounded, and fast setteled On firme foundation of true bountihed; 6 And this braue knight, that for +that+ vertue fights, Now comes to point of that same perilous sted, 8 Where Pleasure dwelles in sensuall delights, Mongst thousand dangers, and ten thousand magick mights.

Her story is, that her man has been led astray by the Lady Acrasia, who leads many knights to her Bower of Bliss, and there makes them forget honor and knightly duty.