Limours

Also known as: Earl Limours · Role: suitor · First appears: The Marriage of Geraint 3

Life events

• Enid urges Limours to abduct her from Geraint the next morning.(Geraint and Enid 2)
  • With: Enid
  • “Earl, if you love me as in former years, And do not practise on me, come with morn, And snatch me from him as by violence; Leave me tonight: I am weary to the death.”
• Enid breaks Geraint’s silence command, revealing Limours’s words and her own deception.(Geraint and Enid 3)
  • With: Enid Geraint
  • “Then breaking his command of silence given, She told him all that Earl Limours had said, Except the passage that he loved her not; Nor left untold the craft herself had used;”
• Geraint defeats Limours in combat, leaving him stunned or dead while his followers flee.(Geraint and Enid 3)
  • With: Geraint
  • “Dashed down on Geraint, who closed with him, and bore Down by the length of lance and arm beyond The crupper, and so left him stunned or dead, And overthrew the next that followed him”

The Marriage of Geraint 3

• admired: Enid (Limours had wooed Enid.) “O never yet had woman such a pair / Of suitors as this maiden: first Limours, / A creature wholly given to brawls and wine, / Drunk even when he wooed”

Geraint and Enid 2

• admired: Enid “Her suitor in old years before Geraint, Entered, the wild lord of the place, Limours.”
• rivals with Geraint “He shall not cross us more; speak but the word:”
• courtship with Enid “Enid, the pilot star of my lone life, Enid, my early and my only love,”

Geraint and Enid 3

• admired: Enid “Your lover? has your palfrey heart enough”

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Extracted from the original text of Idylls of the King. Made with Rho MD.