Lymoges!
“O Austria!—O,”
KING JOHN, iii. 1. 114.
“Shakespeare has, on this occasion, followed the old play
[The Troublesome Raigne of Iohn, etc., see Dyce's
Shakespeare, vol. iv. p. 3], which at once furnished him with the character of
Falconbridge, and ascribed the death of Richard I. to the Duke of Austria. In the person
of Austria he has conjoined the two well-known enemies of Cœur-de-lion [following
the old play, where Austria is called Lymoges, the Austrich Duke]. Leopold, Duke of
Austria, threw him into prison, in a former expedition [in 1193]; but the castle of
Chaluz, before which he fell [in 1199], belonged to Vidomar, Viscount of Limoges; and the
archer who pierced his shoulder with an arrow (of which wound he died) was Bertrand de
Gourdon. The editors seem hitherto to have understood Lymoges as being an appendage to the
title of Austria, and therefore inquired no further about it”
(BLAKE)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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