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Brewer's: Florentius
A knight who bound himself to marry a “foul and ugly witch,” if she would teach him the solution of a riddle on which his life depended. (Gower: Confessio Amantis.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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