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Sansloy
[Irreligion ], brother of Sansfoy (q.v.). Having
torn off the disguise of Archimago and wounded the lion, he carries off
Una into the wilderness. Her shrieks arouse the fauns and satyrs, who
come to her rescue, and Sansloy flees. Una is Truth, and, being without
Holiness (the Red-Cross Knight), is deceived by Hypocrisy. As soon as
Truth joins Hypocrisy, instead of Holiness, Irreligion breaks in and
carries her away. The reference is to the reign of Queen Mary, when the
Reformation was carried captive, and the lion was wounded by the
“False-law of God.” (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book i. 2.)
In book ii. Sansloy appears again as the cavalier of Perissa or
Prodigality.
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