Le Morte Darthur, Chapter 136 summary
Chapter 136 of 503 · 3 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 136, Sir Beaumains finds Liones’s castle closed to him, and she asks him to spend a year earning honor despite promising him faithful love. He rides away in sorrow, while Liones sends Sir Gringamore to capture his dwarf so she can discover Beaumains’s true name and family.
What happens
- Sir Beaumains rides to Liones’s castle, but armed men raise the drawbridge and close the gate.
- Liones asks him to earn honor for a year and promises to love him alone.
- Beaumains wanders sorrowfully, spends a restless night in a poor man’s house, and then sleeps beside a river.
- Liones asks Sir Gringamore to seize the dwarf, who knows Beaumains’s name and family.
- Gringamore finds Beaumains asleep, captures the dwarf, and rides away as the dwarf cries for help.
- Beaumains wakes and sees Gringamore carrying off the dwarf before the rider disappears.
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