destroyed several English
garrisons stationed there, and vowed to be revenged on any one who
dared to take possession of it. Sir W. Scott calls it "Castle Dangerous"
in his novel so entitled.

[Asterism] In the story of Gareth and Linet, the castle in which Lion[^e]s
was held prisoner by Sir Ironside, the Red Knight of the Red Lands, was
called Castle Perilous. The passages to the castle were held by four
knights, all of whom Sir Gareth overthrew; lastly he conquered Sir
Ironside, liberated the lady, and married her.--Sir T. Malory, _History
of Prince Arthur_, i. 120-153 (1470).

=Perimo'nes= (_Sir_), the Red Knight, one of the four brothers who kept
the passages to Castle Perilous. He was overthrown by Sir Gareth.
Tennyson calls him "Noonday Sun" or "Meridies."--Sir T. Malory, _History
of Prince Arthur_, i. 129 (1470); Tennyson, _Idylls_ ("Gareth and
Lynette").

=Per'ion=, king of Gaul, father of Am'adis of Gaul. His "exploits and
adventures" form part of the series called _Le Roman des Romans_. This
part was added by Juan Diaz (fifteenth century).

[Asterism] It is generally thought that "Gaul" in this romance is the
same as _Galis_, that is "Wales."

=Perissa=, the personification of extravagance, step-sister of Elissa
(_meanness_) and of Medi'na (_the golden mean_); but they never agreed
in any single thing. Perissa's suitor is Sir Huddibras, a man "more huge
in strength than wise in works." (Greek, _perissos_, "extravagant,"
_perissot[^e]s_, "excess.").[TN-84]--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry Queen_, ii. 2
(1590).

=Per'iwinkle= (_Mr._), one of the four guardians of Anne Lovely, the
heiress. He is a silly, half-witted virtuoso, positive and surly; fond
of everything antique and foreign; and wears clothes of the last
century. Mr. Periwinkle dotes upon travellers, and believes more of Sir
John Mandeville than he does of the Bible. Colonel Feignwell, to obtain
his consent to his marriage with Mr. Periwinkle's ward, disguised
himself as an Egyptian, and passed himself off as a great traveller. His
dress, he said, "belonged to the famous Claudius Ptolem[=e]us, who lived
in the year 135." One of his curiosities was _poluflosboio_, "part of
those waves which bore Cleopatra's vessel, when she went to meet
Antony." Another was the _moros musphonon_, or girdle of invisibility.
His trick, however, miscarried, and he then personated Pillage, the
steward of Periwinkle's father, and obtained Periwinkle's signature to
the mar