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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim - -Author: Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen - -Release Date: October 14, 2010 [EBook #33858] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTUROUS *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive - - - - - -</pre> - - -<br> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 33858 ***</div> <br> <br> <br> @@ -123,10 +103,9 @@ http://www.archive.org/details/adventuroussimpl00grimrich<br> <br> <br> <br> -<h3>THE ADVENTUROUS</h3> +<h1><span style="font-size: medium;">THE ADVENTUROUS</span><br> +<span style="color:red">Simplicissimus</span></h1> -<h1 style="color:red">Simplicissimus</h1> -<br> <br> <br> <br> @@ -143,9 +122,9 @@ http://www.archive.org/details/adventuroussimpl00grimrich<br> <br> <br> <br> -<p class="center"><img border="0" src="images/title.png" alt="title page"></p> +<p class="center"><img src="images/title.png" alt="title page" style="border: none"></p> <div style="margin-left:25%; margin-right:25%; text-align:center"> -<h3>Der Abentheursiche</h3> +<div class="h3">Der Abentheursiche</div> <h2><span style="color:red">SIMPLICISSIMUS<br> Teutsch</span></h2> <h3>Das ist: @@ -157,7 +136,7 @@ er darinn gesehen / gelernet / erfahren und<br> aussgestanden / auch warumb er solche wieder<br> feywillig quittirt.<br> -<span style="color:red">Überauss lustig / und männiglich</span><br> +<span style="color:red">Ãœberauss lustig / und männiglich</span><br> nutzlich zu lesen.<br> An Tag geben<br> Von<br> @@ -184,24 +163,24 @@ Im Jahr M DC LXIX.</h3> <h1><span style="color:red">Simplicissimus</span></h1> <br> -<h3>BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE<br> -OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED</h3> +<div class="h3">BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE<br> +OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED</div> -<h2>MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM</h2> +<div class="h2">MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM</div> -<h3>WRITTEN IN GERMAN BY</h3> -<h2>HANS JACOB CHRISTOPH<br> -VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN</h2> +<div class="h3">WRITTEN IN GERMAN BY</div> +<div class="h2">HANS JACOB CHRISTOPH<br> +VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN</div> -<h3>AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME<br> -DONE INTO ENGLISH</h3> +<div class="h3">AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME<br> +DONE INTO ENGLISH</div> <br> <br> <br> <br> -<h3>LONDON</h3> -<h2>WILLIAM HEINEMANN</h2> -<h3>MCMXII</h3> +<div class="h3">LONDON</div> +<div class="h2">WILLIAM HEINEMANN</div> +<div class="h3">MCMXII</div> <br> <br> <br> @@ -215,8 +194,8 @@ DONE INTO ENGLISH</h3> <br> <br> <br> -<h3>TO</h3> -<h2>DR. OTTO SCHLAPP</h2> +<div class="h3">TO</div> +<div class="h2">DR. OTTO SCHLAPP</div> <p class="center" style="font-size:90%">Lecturer in German in the University of Edinburgh,<br> as a tribute to his successful endeavours<br> @@ -525,7 +504,7 @@ a-plundering than did Oliver when he went to church</p> <p class="continue"><i>Chap. xvi.</i>: Of Oliver's descent, and how he behaved in his youth, and specially at school</p> -<p class="continue"><i>Chap. xvii.</i>: How he studied at Liège, and how he there demeaned +<p class="continue"><i>Chap. xvii.</i>: How he studied at Liège, and how he there demeaned himself</p> <p class="continue"><i>Chap. xviii.</i>: Of the homecoming and departure of this worshipful @@ -637,7 +616,7 @@ night's lodging, taught his host a curious art</p> <br> <br> <p class="center"> -<img border="0" src="images/frontispiece.png" alt="frontispiece"></p> +<img src="images/frontispiece.png" alt="frontispiece" style="border: none"></p> <br> <br> <br> @@ -685,7 +664,7 @@ completely altered when the struggle ended. An army of capable bourgeois secretaries and councillors had for centuries served their princes and their fellow subjects well. It is wonderful that throughout the devastating wars waged by Wallenstein and Weimar, and even later on -during the organised raids of Wrangel and Königsmark, the records were +during the organised raids of Wrangel and Königsmark, the records were kept, the village business administered (where there was a village left), and even revenue collected with wellnigh as much regularity as in time of peace. These functionaries, who had worked so well, were at @@ -738,7 +717,7 @@ that "Simplicissimus" at least dealt with the actions of men yet alive; and secondly, with regard to the other books, the continual references to details of the author's own life and opinions. His dread of offending a contemporary is shown by his disguising of the name of -St. André, the commandant of Lippstadt, as N. de S. A. of L. (bk. iii., +St. André, the commandant of Lippstadt, as N. de S. A. of L. (bk. iii., chap. 15).</p> <p class="normal">It is unnecessary here to enter into a discussion of the authorities @@ -762,7 +741,7 @@ soldier, and drew pay for it. As a matter of fact, Grimmelshausen probably served a musqueteer or several musqueteers, just as the "Boy" in Henry V. serves Ancient Pistol and his comrades. From another book, the "Everlasting Almanack," we learn that he was a soldier under the -Imperialist general Götz, lay in garrison at Offenburg, the free city +Imperialist general Götz, lay in garrison at Offenburg, the free city alluded to in book v., chapter 20, and also for a long time in the famous fortress of Philippsburg, of his residence in which he tells various anecdotes. There are traces both in "Simplicissimus" and his @@ -869,7 +848,7 @@ hell because they had lost all faith in those of heaven. That numbers of the unhappy wretches who suffered in their thousands for witchcraft during the first period of the war actually believed themselves in direct communication with the devil is certain. The Bishop of -Würzburg's fortnightly "autos-da-fé" were only stopped when some of the +Würzburg's fortnightly "autos-da-fé" were only stopped when some of the victims denounced the prelate himself as their accomplice, apparently believing it. Grimmelshausen is ready to believe anything. His description of the Witches' Sabbath is that of a scene which he is @@ -882,7 +861,7 @@ be "frozen," or proof, at all events, against leaden bullets. Christia of Brunswick actually employed his ducal brother's workers in glass to make balls of that material to be used against Tilly's troops, who were credited with this supernatural property; and when the small fortress -of Rogäz, near Dessau, was captured by Mansfeld in 1626, the assailants +of Rogäz, near Dessau, was captured by Mansfeld in 1626, the assailants were forbidden to use their fire-arms as useless; the members of the garrison, being wizards all, were clubbed to death with hedge-stakes or the butt-ends of musquets. In all probability this superstition arose @@ -915,7 +894,7 @@ possible invisibility of persons. Of this we have no example in romance of the "Enchanted Bird's-nest" (also fully discussed hereafter) depends on it. On the other hand, the story of the production of the puppies from the pockets of the colonel's guests by the wizard Provost -in book, ii., chap. 22, is narrated by a man who plainly believed such +in book ii., chap. 22, is narrated by a man who plainly believed such things possible; and absolute credence is given to the powers of prophecy possessed both by old Herzbruder (bk. ii., chaps. 23, 24) and by the fortune-teller of Soest (bk. iii., chap. 17), who is apparently @@ -924,10 +903,10 @@ thinks meanly of the art of palmistry.</p> <p class="normal">Coming to the actual career of Simplicissimus as chronicled in the romance which bears his name, we are at the outset confronted by some -strange chronology. The boy is born just after the battle of Höchst in +strange chronology. The boy is born just after the battle of Höchst in 1622, and is captured by the troopers when ten years old; he is with the hermit two years (bk. i., chap. 12) till the latter's death, and -makes his first "spring into the world" after the battle of Nördlingen +makes his first "spring into the world" after the battle of Nördlingen in the autumn of 1634. He is in Hanau during Ramsay's rule, and spends there the winter of 1634-5. In the spring of 1635 (there was still ice on the town-moat) he was captured by Croats. The following eighteen @@ -981,7 +960,7 @@ circulated by the Jesuits of Vienna to the effect that Ramsay had gone mad with rage at the loss of Hanau (bk. v., chap. 8). As a matter of fact, the poor man died partly of his wounds and partly of a broken heart. The only other historic personage in the story who can be -identified with certainty is Daniel St. André, a Hessian soldier of +identified with certainty is Daniel St. André, a Hessian soldier of fortune (bk. iii., chap. 15) of Dutch descent, and commanding at Lippstadt for the "Crown of Sweden."</p> @@ -989,7 +968,7 @@ Lippstadt for the "Crown of Sweden."</p> of allegories, visions, and stories of knavery, brightened only by the "Robinsonade" at the end, it is hard to say; probably at the urgent request of his publisher, when the striking success of the original -work became assured. It appeared at Möpelgard (Montéliard) in the very +work became assured. It appeared at Möpelgard (Montéliard) in the very same year, viz. 1669, as the first known edition, or more probably editions, of the first five books, and is sometimes quoted as a sixth book. Two years later there were issued three more "Continuations," @@ -1052,11 +1031,11 @@ of the witness of similar scenes, and it is to be feared represents only too faithfully the truth as to the treatment of women in the war. It is remarkable, however, that few officers of high rank on either side are accused of wanton offences against public morals. Holk and -Königsmark are the only two who are charged with publicly keeping their +Königsmark are the only two who are charged with publicly keeping their mistresses; and they were the two most brutal commanders of their time. As a rule superior officers took their wives with them ("Simplicissimus," bk. ii., chap. 25) even to the field of battle, and if such ladies fell -into the enemy's hands, as did many after Nördlingen, they were +into the enemy's hands, as did many after Nördlingen, they were treated with all possible respect.</p> <p class="normal">But to return to "Courage." Her Danish lover is about to marry her when @@ -1068,7 +1047,7 @@ gives us a very complete and quite untranslatable reason. With him she journeys, as a Marketenderin or female sutler, to Italy, following the army of Colalto and Gallas, and there, with his assistance, she plays a variety of tricks, always knavish and often highly diverting. Grown -rich, the vivandière dismisses poor "Jump i' th' Field" with a handsome +rich, the vivandière dismisses poor "Jump i' th' Field" with a handsome present, and again resumes her trade of a superior courtesan in the town from which she journeys to the Spa, where she found and beguiled Simplicissimus. Her luck now turns; owing to a scandalous adventure @@ -1098,7 +1077,7 @@ boyhood his father's trade. Carried away from the port of Ragusa by an accident, he is landed in the Spanish Netherlands, and there serves under Spinola, then with that general's army in the Rhine Palatinate, and then in Pappenheim's cavalry. He is present at Breitenfeld and -Lützen, and while temporarily out of the service falls in with +Lützen, and while temporarily out of the service falls in with "Courage" as above narrated. On leaving her, he sets up as an innkeeper, and prospers, but is ruined through his own incorrigible knavery. Serving against the Turks, he is wounded, and takes to @@ -1209,7 +1188,7 @@ for example, looking at the book from a purely artistic point of view, finds it wanting. Other critics have followed him blindly and with a considerable amount of underlying ignorance to boot. The accurate Dahlmann, for example, though he reckons the romance among his -"historical sources," speaks of it as published at Möpelgard in 1669 in +"historical sources," speaks of it as published at Möpelgard in 1669 in six "volumes." Plainly he had never seen a copy, but had heard of the six books (five and the "Continuation") and mistook them for volumes. Tittmann, one of the latest editors of the work, sums up its chief @@ -1652,7 +1631,7 @@ comfort, my hope, my riches, my God!" and more of the same sort, all of which I could not hear or understand. Yet these were surely words which should rightly have cheered, comforted, and delighted every Christian soul that should find itself in such a plight as did I. But O -simplicity! O ignorance! 'Twas all gibberish<a name="div2_01" href="#div2Ref_01"><sup>[1]</sup></a> to me, and all in an +simplicity! O ignorance! 'Twas all gibberish<a id="div2_01" href="#div2Ref_01"><sup>[1]</sup></a> to me, and all in an unknown tongue out of which I could make nothing: yea, was rather terrified by its strangeness. Yet when I heard how the hunger and thirst of him that spake should be satisfied, my unbearable hunger did @@ -1663,7 +1642,7 @@ confusion over his shoulders: a tangled beard he had shapen like to a Swiss cheese; his face yellow and thin yet kindly enough, and his long gown made up of more than a thousand pieces of cloth of all sorts sewn together one upon another. Round his neck and body he had wound a heavy -iron chain like St. William,<a name="div2_02" href="#div2Ref_02"><sup>[2]</sup></a> and in other ways seemed in mine eyes +iron chain like St. William,<a id="div2_02" href="#div2Ref_02"><sup>[2]</sup></a> and in other ways seemed in mine eyes so grisly and terrible that I began to shake like a wet dog. But what made my fear greater was that he did hug to his breast a crucifix some six spans long. So I could fancy nought else but that this old grey man @@ -1938,7 +1917,7 @@ approaching old age: yet was this his greatest anxiety, lest my tender youth should not endure for long such a hard way of living as was his.</p> <p class="normal">A space of some three weeks was my year of probation: in which three -weeks St. Gertrude<a name="div2_03" href="#div2Ref_03"><sup>[3]</sup></a> was at war with the gardeners: so was it my lot +weeks St. Gertrude<a id="div2_03" href="#div2Ref_03"><sup>[3]</sup></a> was at war with the gardeners: so was it my lot to be inducted into the profession of these last: and therein I carried myself so well that the good hermit took an especial pleasure in me, and that not so much for my work's sake (whereunto I was before well @@ -2211,7 +2190,7 @@ I not conceive to what end all this was. Then said he: "My dear and only true son (for besides thee I never begat creature for the honour of our Creator), when my soul is gone to its own place, then do thy duty to my body, and pay me the last honours: cover me up with these -same clods which we have even now dug from this pit," And thereupon he +same clods which we have even now dug from this pit." And thereupon he took me in his arms and, kissing me, pressed me harder to his breast than would seem possible for a man so weak as he appeared to be. And, "Dear child," says he, "I commend thee to God his protection, and die @@ -2358,7 +2337,7 @@ five dead at once, making them stand one behind another; and because the bullet, having already passed through five bodies, did not reach him, who stood sixth and last, they had cut off his nose and ears, yet before that had forced him to render to five of them the filthiest -service in the world.<a name="div2_04" href="#div2Ref_04"><sup>[4]</sup></a> But when he saw himself thus degraded by these +service in the world.<a id="div2_04" href="#div2Ref_04"><sup>[4]</sup></a> But when he saw himself thus degraded by these rogues without shame or knowledge of God, he had heaped upon them the vilest reproaches, though they were willing now to let him go. Yet in the hope one of them would from annoyance send a ball through his head, @@ -2658,7 +2637,7 @@ who from the plough, from the needle, from shoemaking, and from shepherding have done well by themselves, and by such bravery have raised themselves up far above the poorer nobility to the ranks of counts and barons. Who was the Imperialist John de Werth? Who was the -Swede Stalhans? Who were the Hessians, Little Jakob and St. André? Of +Swede Stalhans? Who were the Hessians, Little Jakob and St. André? Of their kind there were many yet well known whom I, for brevity's sake, forbear to mention. So is it nothing new in the present time, nor will it be otherwise in the future, that honest men attain by war to great @@ -2708,7 +2687,7 @@ transparent: for which reason one had writ on its trunk these rhymes:</p> "The holmoak by the wind beset and brought to ruin,</p> <p class="t0" style="margin-left:1em; text-indent:-1em">Breaks its own branches down and proves its own undoing.</p> <p class="t0" style="margin-left:1em; text-indent:-1em">By civil war within and brothers' deadly feud</p> -<p class="t0" style="margin-left:1em; text-indent:-1em">Alls topsy-turvy turned and misery hath ensued."</p> +<p class="t0" style="margin-left:1em; text-indent:-1em">All's topsy-turvy turned and misery hath ensued."</p> </div> <p class="normal">By the mighty roaring of these cruel winds and the noise of the @@ -2736,7 +2715,7 @@ sought out a hollow tree for my shelter, and my food was naught but beech-nuts which I picked up on the way: but on the third day I came to a pretty open field near Gelnhausen, and there I enjoyed a veritable banquet, for the whole place was full of wheatsheaves which the -peasants, being frightened away after the great battle of Nördlingen, +peasants, being frightened away after the great battle of Nördlingen, had for my good fortune not been able to carry off. Inside a sheaf I set up my tent, for 'twas cruel cold, and filled my belly with the ears of corn which I rubbed in my hands: and such a meal I had not enjoyed @@ -3019,7 +2998,7 @@ of many popish books concerning the lives of the ancient eremites. Yet will I not conceal from thee how he came into the Spessart, and, in accord with his wish, into such a miserable hermit's life, that thou mayest hereafter be able to tell others thereof: for the second night -after that bloody battle of Höchst was lost, he came alone and +after that bloody battle of Höchst was lost, he came alone and unattended to my parsonage-house, even as I, my wife, and children were fallen asleep, and that towards morning, for because of the noise all over the country which both pursuers and pursued are wont to make in @@ -3072,7 +3051,7 @@ helped him to build his hut. And in what manner he there spent his life, and with what help at times I did assist him, thou knowest as well as I, yea, in part better.</p> -<p class="normal">"Now when lately the Battle of Nördlingen was lost and I, as thou +<p class="normal">"Now when lately the Battle of Nördlingen was lost and I, as thou knowest, was clean stripped of all and also evilly handled, I fled hither for safety; besides, I had here my chief possessions. And when my ready money was about to fail me, I took three rings and the @@ -3155,7 +3134,7 @@ Simplicissimus." And "Ah!" says he again, "the good cavalier enough to lament his wife, great with child as she was; for in the pursuit she was captured by a party of Imperialist troopers, and that too in the Spessart. Which when I heard, and knew not but that my -brother-in-law was slain at Höchst, at once I sent a trumpeter to the +brother-in-law was slain at Höchst, at once I sent a trumpeter to the enemy to ask for my sister and ransom her: yet got no more thereby than to learn the said party of troopers had been scattered in the Spessart by a few peasants, and that in that fight my sister had again been lost @@ -3223,7 +3202,7 @@ adulterer and fornicator!"</p> <p class="normal">"What! fornicator!" answered he, with a scornful laughter, "I am no fornicator because I have given this marriage a twist: a fornicator is -he that the sixth commandment<a name="div2_05" href="#div2Ref_05"><sup>[5]</sup></a> speaks of, where it forbids that any +he that the sixth commandment<a id="div2_05" href="#div2Ref_05"><sup>[5]</sup></a> speaks of, where it forbids that any man get into another's garden and nick the fruit before the owner." How to prove that this was so to be understood, he forthwith explained according to his devil's catechism the seventh commandment, wherein it @@ -3454,7 +3433,7 @@ fools: yet that thou hast thus far seen and heard is but an ordinary thing and mere child's play compared with that which elsewhere, secretly and openly, with violence against God and man, doth happen and is perpetrated in the world. Let not that vex thee! Thou wilt find few -Christians such as was the late Master Samuel."<a name="div2_06" href="#div2Ref_06"><sup>[6]</sup></a></p> +Christians such as was the late Master Samuel."<a id="div2_06" href="#div2Ref_06"><sup>[6]</sup></a></p> <p class="normal">Now even as we spake together, some of the opposite party which had been taken prisoner were led across the market-place, and this broke up @@ -3582,7 +3561,7 @@ shewed me, and that greater day by day: so he was concerned lest I should step into his shoes; and therefore in secret looked upon me with malicious and envious eyes, and sought occasion how he might put a stumbling-block for me and by my fall prevent his own. Yet were mine -eyes as doves' eyes<a name="div2_07" href="#div2Ref_07"><sup>[7]</sup></a> and my intent far different from his: nay, I +eyes as doves' eyes<a id="div2_07" href="#div2Ref_07"><sup>[7]</sup></a> and my intent far different from his: nay, I confided to him all my secrets, which yet consisted in naught else than in childish simplicity and piety. But he, innocent as I was, persuaded me to all manner of folly, which yet I accepted for truth and honesty, @@ -3662,7 +3641,7 @@ olla podridas, which by a thousand artful preparations and unnumbered ingredients were in such wise spiced, devilled, disguised, and seasoned (and all to further the drinking) that they, by such added ingredients and spices, were altogether changed in their substance and different -from what Nature had made them, so that Gnaeus Manlius<a name="div2_08" href="#div2Ref_08"><sup>[8]</sup></a> himself, +from what Nature had made them, so that Gnaeus Manlius<a id="div2_08" href="#div2Ref_08"><sup>[8]</sup></a> himself, though he had come direct from Africa and had with him the best of cooks, yet had not recognised them. Then thought I: "Is't not like enough that these things should disturb the senses of any man who can @@ -3920,7 +3899,7 @@ goose-pen under the staircase.</p> <p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. i.</i>: HOW A GOOSE AND A GANDER WERE MATED</p> <br> -<p class="continue">Sο in my goose-pen I pondered on all that I have set down in black and +<p class="continue">So in my goose-pen I pondered on all that I have set down in black and white in my first part; of which, therefore, there is no need in this place to say more. Yet can I not choose but say that even then I doubted whether the dancers in truth were so mad to stamp the floor @@ -4089,7 +4068,7 @@ must use words which might be accounted unbefitting his holy office. Then he went on to tell how sorely I was plagued by nature, how I had caused great disgust thereby to the secretary in his office, and how I had learned, together with the art of prophecy, also certain -enchantments<a name="div2_09" href="#div2Ref_09"><sup>[9]</sup></a> against such mishaps, and how ill such arts had turned +enchantments<a id="div2_09" href="#div2Ref_09"><sup>[9]</sup></a> against such mishaps, and how ill such arts had turned out when they were tried; item, how the dancing had seemed so strange to me, because I had never seen the like before, what an explication thereof I had heard from my comrade, and for what reason I had seized @@ -4304,7 +4283,7 @@ themselves had gone mad, and that to make me drink more or at least not go to sleep. And whenever, being thus baited, I fell down (and this I often did purposely), then they seized upon me and made as if they would cast me into the fire. So was it with me as with a hawk that is -kept from sleep<a name="div2_10" href="#div2Ref_10"><sup>[10]</sup></a>: and this was my great torment. 'Tis true I could +kept from sleep<a id="div2_10" href="#div2Ref_10"><sup>[10]</sup></a>: and this was my great torment. 'Tis true I could have lasted them out both in respect of drunkenness and sleep; but they stayed not all the time altogether, but relieved one another's watch; and so at last must I have failed. Three days and two nights did I @@ -4429,7 +4408,7 @@ of young fools and old.</p> <p class="normal">Then was I by my two soldiers presented to the Governor, for all the world as if they had taken me as plunder: them he rewarded with a gratification, but to me he promised the best post that I could have -about him. So I thought of the Goldsmith's<a name="div2_11" href="#div2Ref_11"><sup>[11]</sup></a> apprentice and answered +about him. So I thought of the Goldsmith's<a id="div2_11" href="#div2Ref_11"><sup>[11]</sup></a> apprentice and answered thus: "Good, my lord, but none must clap me into goose-pens: for we calves can endure no such treatment if we are to grow and to turn into fine heads of cattle." The Governor promised me better things, and @@ -4502,7 +4481,7 @@ impart to every man in his station to which He hath called him, so much wit as he hath need of there to maintain himself: yea, and moreover, that many do vainly imagine, doctors though they be or not, that they alone be men of wit and they only fit for every trade, whereas there be -as many good fish<a name="div2_12" href="#div2Ref_12"><sup>[12]</sup></a> in the sea yet.</p> +as many good fish<a id="div2_12" href="#div2Ref_12"><sup>[12]</sup></a> in the sea yet.</p> <br> <br> <br> @@ -4520,7 +4499,7 @@ folk, and specially my master, whereas I pretended to be a fool, "why, upon that point," says he, "thou needest not to trouble thyself: this foolish world will be befooled; and if they have left thee thy wits, so use thou those same wits to thine own advantage, and imagine to thyself -as if thou, like to the Ph[oe]nix, hast been newly born from folly to +as if thou, like to the PhÅ“nix, hast been newly born from folly to understanding through fire, and so to a new human life. Yet know thou withal thou art not yet out of the wood, but with risk of thy reason hast slipped into this fool's cap. Yea, and these times be so out of @@ -4572,7 +4551,7 @@ the five books of Moses by heart, and could dictate the same word by word to the scribes. Themistocles in one year did learn the Persian Speech, and Crassus, in Asia, could talk the five separate dialects of the Greek language, and in each administer the law to his subjects. -Julius Cæsar could at the same time read, dictate, and give audiences. +Julius Cæsar could at the same time read, dictate, and give audiences. The holy Jerome knew both Hebrew, Chaldee, Greek, Persian, Median, Arabic and Latin, and the eremite Antonius knew the whole Bible by heart only from hearing it read. And so we know of a certain Corsican @@ -4769,7 +4748,7 @@ were all begirt with flames of fire) that even the savages must flee before him in battle? Who would not esteem him higher and nobler than other men, of whom Quintus Curtius tells that his breath was like perfume and his sweat like musk and that his dead body smelt of -precious spiceries? Here could I cite the case of Julius Cæsar and +precious spiceries? Here could I cite the case of Julius Cæsar and Pompeius, of whom the one, besides the victories which he won in the civil wars, did fifty times engage in pitched battles, and defeated and slew 1,520,000 men: while the other, besides the taking of 940 ships @@ -4921,7 +4900,7 @@ not examples enough in the case of great men of old time? So the Lacedaemonians railed at their own Lycurgus for walking with his head bowed: the Romans deemed it a foul fault in Scipio that he snored so loud in his sleep: it seemed to them an ugly fault in Pompey that he -did scratch himself but with one finger: at Cæsar they mocked for +did scratch himself but with one finger: at Cæsar they mocked for wearing his girdle awry; and the good Cato was slandered for eating too greedily with both jaws at once; yea, the Carthaginians spoke evil of Hannibal for going with his breast bare and uncovered. How think ye @@ -5080,7 +5059,7 @@ own eyes were full of water.</p> <p class="normal">After dinner my lord sends for the pastor, and to him he told all that I had uttered, and gave him to understand that he was concerned lest -all was not well<a name="div2_13" href="#div2Ref_13"><sup>[13]</sup></a> with me, and perchance the devil had a finger in +all was not well<a id="div2_13" href="#div2Ref_13"><sup>[13]</sup></a> with me, and perchance the devil had a finger in the pie, seeing that at first I had shewn myself altogether simple and ignorant yet now could utter things to make men wonder. The pastor, who knew my qualities better than any other, answered, that should have @@ -5246,11 +5225,11 @@ AND LEARNED AMONG THE CROATS</p> horseback, and for a while detained the Croats and harassed them with skirmishing, yet could they get from them none of their booty; for being light troops, they escaped very cleverly, and took their way to -Büdingen, where they baited, and delivered to the burghers there the +Büdingen, where they baited, and delivered to the burghers there the rich Hanauers' sons to put to ransom, and there sold their stolen horses and other wares. From thence they decamped again before it was even fully night, let alone day again, and rode hard through the -Büdingen forest into the abbey-lands of Fulda, and seized on the way +Büdingen forest into the abbey-lands of Fulda, and seized on the way all they could carry with them. For robbery and plunder hindered them not in the least in their swift march: like the devil, that can do mischief as he flies. And the same evening they arrived in the @@ -5290,7 +5269,7 @@ though, as I have said, he kept no great household, yet was he by his own folk and others that knew him honoured, loved, and feared. Never were we at rest, but now here, now there: now we attacked and now we were attacked: never for a moment were we idle in damaging the -Hessians' resources: nor on his part did Melander<a name="div2_14" href="#div2Ref_14"><sup>[14]</sup></a> leave us in +Hessians' resources: nor on his part did Melander<a id="div2_14" href="#div2Ref_14"><sup>[14]</sup></a> leave us in peace: but cut off many a trooper and sent him prisoner to Cassel.</p> <p class="normal">This restless life was not to my liking, and often I did wish myself @@ -5539,7 +5518,7 @@ said that word when down he fell from the tree, twisted his shoulder, and called for help. But there was nobody there but himself.</p> <p class="normal">When this was noised abroad, most held it for a fable, till a little -after Catherine Prévost was arrested for witchcraft, who had been at +after Catherine Prévost was arrested for witchcraft, who had been at the said dance: so she confessed all even as it had happened, save that she knew naught of the cry that Hembach had uttered. Majolus tells us of a servant that had been too common with his mistress, and of an @@ -5720,7 +5699,7 @@ with tables, and those full of gamesters: and every company had its four-cornered thieves' bones, on which they hazarded their luck; for share their money they must, and give it to one and take it from another. So likewise every cloak or table had its coupier (croupier I -should have said, and might well have said<a name="div2_15" href="#div2Ref_15"><sup>[15]</sup></a> "cooperer"), whose +should have said, and might well have said<a id="div2_15" href="#div2Ref_15"><sup>[15]</sup></a> "cooperer"), whose office 'twas to be judges and to see that none was cheated; they too lent the cloaks and tables and dice, and contrived so well to get their hire out of the winnings that they generally got the chief share: yet @@ -5729,7 +5708,7 @@ when it was best laid out, 'twas the sutler or the barber-surgeon that had it--for there were many broken heads to mend.</p> <p class="normal">At these fools one might well wonder, how they all thought to win, -which was impossible, even if they had played at another's<a name="div2_16" href="#div2Ref_16"><sup>[16]</sup></a> risk: +which was impossible, even if they had played at another's<a id="div2_16" href="#div2Ref_16"><sup>[16]</sup></a> risk: and though all hoped for this, yet the cry was, the more players the more skill; for each thought on his own luck; and so it happened that some hit and some missed, some won and some lost. Thereupon some @@ -6155,7 +6134,7 @@ honour of speaking a single word with him? So he dismounted, and nothing could prevent him from unfastening the tent himself; and as he did that I bit his hand, and got for my pains a hearty buffet. So as soon as he saw mine old friend, "I ask his honour's pardon," says he, -"for the freedom I have taken, to speak a word with him." "Tis well," +"for the freedom I have taken, to speak a word with him." "'Tis well," says Herzbruder, "wherein can I pleasure his honour?" "Only in this," says the lieutenant, "that I could beg of his honour that he would condescend upon the casting of my nativity." Then the old man answered: @@ -6335,7 +6314,7 @@ me, "Thou whore in grain," says he, "I will teach thee ..." could not say for very rage, but struck at me as if he were mad. But I beginning to cry out, he must needs stop lest he should alarm the camp: for both armies, Saxon and Imperialist, lay close together expecting -the approach of the Swedes under Banér.</p> +the approach of the Swedes under Banér.</p> <br> <br> <br> @@ -6449,7 +6428,7 @@ had prolonged itself far into the night, answered me thus: "What!" say he, "write down 'Thy mother the whore.'"</p> <p class="normal">Those words I did write down, and when they were read out they did but -make my case worse,<a name="div2_17" href="#div2Ref_17"><sup>[17]</sup></a> for the Advocate-General said he was now well +make my case worse,<a id="div2_17" href="#div2Ref_17"><sup>[17]</sup></a> for the Advocate-General said he was now well assured that I was a rogue. Then he asked the provost, had they searched me and found any writings upon me? The provost answered him no; for how could they search a man that had been brought to them @@ -6473,7 +6452,7 @@ therefore deserveth no better."</p> innocent and had strong trust in God: yet I could see my danger and lamented the loss of my fair ducats, which the Judge-Advocate-General had put in his own pocket. But before they could proceed to extremities -with me Banér's folk fell upon ours: at the first the two armies fought +with me Banér's folk fell upon ours: at the first the two armies fought for the best position, and then secondly for the heavy artillery, which our people lost forthwith. Our provost kept pretty far behind the line of battle with his helpers and his prisoners, yet were we so close to @@ -6563,7 +6542,7 @@ young which I hatched pursued me with the more security under the protection of those same arms: under the breastplate they had their free quarters, pastime, and playground, so that it seemed I wore the harness not for my protection but for theirs, for I could not reach -them with my arms and could do no harm among them.<a name="div2_18" href="#div2Ref_18"><sup>[18]</sup></a> I busied myself +them with my arms and could do no harm among them.<a id="div2_18" href="#div2Ref_18"><sup>[18]</sup></a> I busied myself with the planning of all manner of campaigns against them, to destroy this invincible Armada: yet had I neither time nor opportunity to drive them out by fire, (as is done in ovens) nor by water, nor by @@ -6671,7 +6650,7 @@ fine new cloak made, and thou canst have the old one: 'twill make a brave new coat for thee."</p> <p class="normal">Well might he call it the old one: for I believe it could well remember -the Battle of Pavia,<a name="div2_19" href="#div2Ref_19"><sup>[19]</sup></a> so weatherbeaten and shabby was it: and with +the Battle of Pavia,<a id="div2_19" href="#div2Ref_19"><sup>[19]</sup></a> so weather-beaten and shabby was it: and with the giving of it he did me but little kindness.</p> <p class="normal">Paradise we found as we would have it and still better: in place of @@ -6823,7 +6802,7 @@ detachments put under my command. And now I began to steal like any Bohemian, and if I made any capture of value, I would give my officers so rich a share thereof that 'twas allowed me to play my tricks on forbidden ground, for whatever I did I was supported. General Count -Götz had left remaining in Westphalia three enemy's garrisons--to wit, +Götz had left remaining in Westphalia three enemy's garrisons--to wit, in Dorsten, in Lippstadt, and in Coesfeld: and all these three I mightily plagued! for I was before their gates, now here, now there, one day here and one day there, no less, and snapped up many a good @@ -6864,7 +6843,7 @@ foolish phantasies. And because I saw that I wanted an opportunity to shew the courage which I felt in me, it vexed me that I could not every day have the chance to meet the adversary in arms and try the result. So then I wished the Trojan war back again, or such a siege as was at -Ostende,<a name="div2_20" href="#div2Ref_20"><sup>[20]</sup></a> and fool as I was, I never thought that a pitcher goes to +Ostende,<a id="div2_20" href="#div2Ref_20"><sup>[20]</sup></a> and fool as I was, I never thought that a pitcher goes to the well till it breaks: and that also is true of a young soldier and a foolish, when he hath but money and luck and courage: thereupon follow haughtiness and pride: and by reason of that pride I hired, in place of @@ -7091,7 +7070,7 @@ the general booty sixteen rix-dollars: for I had taught them that in such wise they must bring the country-folk on their side, seeing that such could often help a party out of great difficulties or betray such another party and bring all to the gallows. From Rehnen we marched to -Münster and thence to Ham, and so home to Soest to our headquarters, +Münster and thence to Ham, and so home to Soest to our headquarters, where I after some days received an answer from his reverence, as follows: "Noble Huntsman,--If he from whom you stole the bacon had known that you would appear to him in devilish guise, he had not so @@ -7537,7 +7516,7 @@ their feet: then will he again set up the Roman Empire, and so betake himself again to Germany, and with his lords of Parliament (whom, as I have said, he shall choose in pairs from every city in Germany, and name them the chiefs and fathers of his German Fatherland) build a city -in the midst of Germany that shall be far greater than Manoah<a name="div2_21" href="#div2Ref_21"><sup>[21]</sup></a> in +in the midst of Germany that shall be far greater than Manoah<a id="div2_21" href="#div2Ref_21"><sup>[21]</sup></a> in America, and richer than was Jerusalem in Solomon's time, whose walls shall be as high as the mountains of Tirol and its ditches as broad as the sea between Spain and Africa. And there will he build a temple @@ -7820,7 +7799,7 @@ grave after him.</p> <p class="normal">So next morning I brought my prisoners and plunder safely to Soest, and gained more honour and fame from this foray than ever before: for each -one said, "This will prove another young John de Werth<a name="div2_22" href="#div2Ref_22"><sup>[22]</sup></a>"; which +one said, "This will prove another young John de Werth<a id="div2_22" href="#div2Ref_22"><sup>[22]</sup></a>"; which tickled me greatly. Yet would not the commandant permit me to exchange shots or to fight with the lieutenant: for he said I had twice overcome him. And the more my triumphs thus increased the more grew the envy of @@ -7847,7 +7826,7 @@ it would altogether overwhelm my present happiness.</p> <p class="normal">Now just then Count von der Wahl, as colonel in command of the Westphalian circle, was collecting troops from all the garrisons to -make a cavalry expedition through the bishopric of Münster towards the +make a cavalry expedition through the bishopric of Münster towards the Vecht, Meppen, Lingen and such places, but specially to drive off two companies of Hessian troopers in the bishopric of Paderborn that lay two miles from the city and had there done our people much damage. So @@ -7941,7 +7920,7 @@ prince who has command of land and folk and great sums to spend by the year. And thus we fared better than was pleasing to a company of troopers who sat there also at table, but with no such mad tricks as we. So, being angry, they began to jest upon us, "How comes it," said -they to one another, "that these prop-hoppers<a name="div2_23" href="#div2Ref_23"><sup>[23]</sup></a>" (for they took us +they to one another, "that these prop-hoppers<a id="div2_23" href="#div2Ref_23"><sup>[23]</sup></a>" (for they took us for musqueteers, seeing that no animal in the world is more like a musqueteer than is a dragoon, and if a dragoon fall from his horse he rises up a musqueteer) "can make such a show with their halfpence?" @@ -7955,7 +7934,7 @@ beer-glass with wine and let it go round to the health of all good musqueteers, and at every round made such a hubbub that none could hear himself speak. And this vexed them yet more, so that they said aloud, "What in the devil's name have these prop-hoppers for an easy life of -it!" Whereupon Jump-i-'th'-field answered, "And what matters that to +it!" Whereupon Jump-i'-th'-field answered, "And what matters that to the bootblacks?" This passed well enough; for he looked so big and held so fierce and threatening a carriage that no one cared to give him the rub. Yet he must again fall foul of them, and this time of a fellow of @@ -8081,7 +8060,7 @@ those touching my allegiance, I shall ever be,</p> leave it alone was not to be thought on: to storm it without a breach would have cost much blood, and 'twould have been uncertain even then whether we should succeed or not: and if we had to fetch our heavy -pieces and all their equipment from Münster and Ham, 'twould cost much +pieces and all their equipment from Münster and Ham, 'twould cost much time, trouble, and expense. So while great and small were hard at work a-reasoning, it came into my head that I should use this opportunity to get free: so I set all my wits to work, and reflected how one might @@ -8283,7 +8262,7 @@ than ever.</p> PRESENT</p> <br> -<p class="continue">Had two fine horses that were at that time all the joy I had in the +<p class="continue">I had two fine horses that were at that time all the joy I had in the world. Every day I rode them in the riding-school or else for amusement, if I had naught else to do; not indeed that the horses had anything to learn, but I did it that people might see that the fine @@ -8536,7 +8515,7 @@ with me: yet neither my desire of honour nor of money would leave me: and still less my hope to become great, to leave the wars, and to be in peace; nay, rather I held to my first plan; and when a chance offered for Cologne, whither I, with some hundred dragoons, was ordered to -convoy certain carriers and waggons of merchandise from Münster, I +convoy certain carriers and waggons of merchandise from Münster, I packed up my treasure, took it with me, and gave it in charge to one of the first merchants of that city to be drawn out on production of an exact list of the things. Now it was seventy-four marks of uncoined @@ -8560,7 +8539,7 @@ that would be of more service to me than money in my purse.</p> future, so that I might get the favour of all: for Jump-i'-th'-field had put a troublesome flea in my ear, and had made me to believe I was envied of all: and in truth 'twas no otherwise. And now came into my -mind what the famous prophetess of Soest had once said,<a name="div2_24" href="#div2Ref_24"><sup>[24]</sup></a> and so I +mind what the famous prophetess of Soest had once said,<a id="div2_24" href="#div2Ref_24"><sup>[24]</sup></a> and so I burdened myself with yet greater cares. Yet with these thoughts did I sharpen my wit, and perceived that a man that should live without cares would be dull as any beast. Then I considered for what reason one and @@ -8628,7 +8607,7 @@ Hessians (for they were from different garrisons) separated the same evening. But the cornet kept me and the corporal, together with three other dragoons, as his share because he had captured us: and so were we brought to a fortress which lay but a few miles from our own -garrison.<a name="div2_25" href="#div2Ref_25"><sup>[25]</sup></a> And inasmuch as I had raised plenty of smoke in that town +garrison.<a id="div2_25" href="#div2Ref_25"><sup>[25]</sup></a> And inasmuch as I had raised plenty of smoke in that town before, my name was there well known and I myself more feared than loved. So when we had the place in sight the cornet sent a trooper in advance to announce his coming to the commandant, and to tell him how @@ -8709,7 +8688,7 @@ you have in me a willing servant, and as such I remain,</p> <p style="text-indent:20%">"Your honour's obedient servant,</p> -<p style="text-indent:20%">"[DANIEL] DE S[AINT] A[NDRÉ]."<a name="div2_26" href="#div2Ref_26"><sup>[26]</sup></a></p> +<p style="text-indent:20%">"[DANIEL] DE S[AINT] A[NDRÉ]."<a id="div2_26" href="#div2Ref_26"><sup>[26]</sup></a></p> <br> <p class="normal">Now this letter did not half please me, yet I must return thanks to him @@ -9206,7 +9185,7 @@ learned there no better Christianity than this? Tell me, why do ye not follow in the footsteps of your parents in the pure religion of Christ, or why will ye not betake yourself to this our belief, of which the foundations be so plain both in Holy Writ and nature that neither -Papist nor Lutheran<a name="div2_27" href="#div2Ref_27"><sup>[27]</sup></a> can ever upset them."</p> +Papist nor Lutheran<a id="div2_27" href="#div2Ref_27"><sup>[27]</sup></a> can ever upset them."</p> <p class="normal">"Your reverence," I answered, "so say all of their own religion: yet which am I to believe? Think ye 'tis so light a matter for me to @@ -9242,7 +9221,7 @@ anent my lecheries, I will be content with thy belief."</p> <p class="normal">And so can the reader judge what a godless, wicked rogue I then was: for I did but give the good pastor fruitless trouble, that he might leave me undisturbed in my vicious life, and thinks I, "Before thou art -ready with thy proofs I shall belike be where the pepper<a name="div2_28" href="#div2Ref_28"><sup>[28]</sup></a> grows."</p> +ready with thy proofs I shall belike be where the pepper<a id="div2_28" href="#div2Ref_28"><sup>[28]</sup></a> grows."</p> <br> <br> <br> @@ -9529,10 +9508,10 @@ Cologne, possess myself of my treasure, and so return to the fortress and there take command of my company. Furthermore a day was named on which a company should be made over to my father-in-law, together with the commission of lieutenant-colonel in the commandant's regiment. For -Count Götz lying in Westphalia with many Imperial troops and his +Count Götz lying in Westphalia with many Imperial troops and his headquarters at Dortmund, my commandant looked to be besieged next spring, and so was seeking to enlist good soldiers. Yet was this care -of his in vain: for the said Count Götz was, by reason of the defeat of +of his in vain: for the said Count Götz was, by reason of the defeat of John de Werth in the Breisgau, forced to leave Westphalia that same spring and take the field against the Duke of Weimar on the Rhine.</p> <br> @@ -9914,7 +9893,7 @@ to put it at the disposition of my friends. This plan the good Canard thought good, and promised me to forward the letters to their proper place though it were in Mexico or even in China. Accordingly I prepared letters to my wife, to my father-in-law, and to the colonel S(aint) -A(ndré), commandant in Lippstadt, to whom I addressed the whole packet, +A(ndré), commandant in Lippstadt, to whom I addressed the whole packet, and enclosed the two others. The contents were: that I would present myself again as speedily as might be, if only I could get the means to perform so long a journey, and begged both my father-in-law and the @@ -10104,7 +10083,7 @@ editions) it is copied. It is therefore omitted here.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. iv.</i>; HOW SIMPLICISSIMUS DEPARTED SECRETLY AND HOW HE BELIEVED +<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. iv.</i>: HOW SIMPLICISSIMUS DEPARTED SECRETLY AND HOW HE BELIEVED HE HAD THE NEAPOLITAN DISEASE</p> <br> @@ -10125,12 +10104,12 @@ another. And with his letter my wife sent me one also full of all loving assurances of her hope to have me back. (Had she but known how I had lived she had surely sent me a greeting of another sort.)</p> -<p class="normal">Now could I well conceive 'twould be hard to have my congé from +<p class="normal">Now could I well conceive 'twould be hard to have my congé from Monsieur Canard, and so did I determine to depart secretly so soon as I could find opportunity: which (to my great misfortune) I found. For as I met on a time certain officers of the Duke of Weimar's army, I gave them to understand I was an ensign of the regiment of colonel S(aint) -A(ndré) and had been a long time in Paris on mine own affairs, yet now +A(ndré) and had been a long time in Paris on mine own affairs, yet now was resolved to return to my regiment, and so begged they would take me as their travelling-companion on their journey back. So they told me the day of their departure and were right willing to take me with them: @@ -10298,7 +10277,7 @@ real proof before their eyes that the medicine was truly good.</p> <p class="normal">So when I found where the shoe pinched I got me a half-wineglass full of strong Strassburg Branntwein, and caught a kind of toad called -Reling or Möhmlein, that in spring and summer sits in dirty pools and +Reling or Möhmlein, that in spring and summer sits in dirty pools and croaks, gold colour or nearly salmon colour with black spots on its belly, most hateful to see. Such an one I put in a wineglass with water and set it by my wares on a table under the lime-tree. And when the @@ -10560,8 +10539,8 @@ that 'twas that very same cornet that had once made me prisoner: and now could I not conceive how from so fine a young soldier he had been turned into a merchant, specially since he was a gentleman born. Yea, my curiosity to know if my eyes and ears deceived me or not urged me to -go to him and say, "Monsieur Schönstein, is it you or not?" to which he -answered, "I am no Herr von Schönstein but a simple trader." "And I +go to him and say, "Monsieur Schönstein, is it you or not?" to which he +answered, "I am no Herr von Schönstein but a simple trader." "And I too," says I, "was never a huntsman of Soest but an organist, or rather a land-tramping beggar." And "O brother!" he answered, "what the devil trade art thou of? whither art thou bound?" "Brother," said I, "if thou @@ -10672,7 +10651,7 @@ enough, if only he would dismiss the hangman too, to bear me company. So he let it pass, for well could he conceive that I should hold it for no punishment but for a favour if he would let me go: and against my will I must remain a musqueteer and starve till the summer. But the -nearer Count von Götz came with his army, the nearer came also my +nearer Count von Götz came with his army, the nearer came also my deliverance: for when that general had his headquarters at Bruchsal, my friend Herzbruder, that I had so faithfully helped with my money in the camp before Magdeburg, was sent by the staff on certain business to our @@ -10784,7 +10763,7 @@ here and there in the Black Forest and made myself well acquainted with the Breisgau and Alsace. For the rest, I had scant luck, for when my servant and his horse had been captured by the Weimar troops at Kenzingen I must needs work the other harder, and in the end so ride -him to death that I was fain to join the order of the "Merode-brüder." +him to death that I was fain to join the order of the "Merode-brüder." My friend Herzbruder indeed would willingly have equipped me again: but seeing that I had so soon got rid of the first two horses, he held back, and thought to let me kick my heels till I had learned more @@ -10808,7 +10787,7 @@ call Count Mansfeld himself "Cobbler" on that account, I would count him for a fool. And so must you understand this name, that will last as long as Germans do make war: and this was the beginning of it: when this gentleman (Merode) first brought a newly raised regiment to the -army his recruits proved as weak and crazy in body as the Bretons,<a name="div2_29" href="#div2Ref_29"><sup>[29]</sup></a> +army his recruits proved as weak and crazy in body as the Bretons,<a id="div2_29" href="#div2Ref_29"><sup>[29]</sup></a> so that they could not endure the marching and other fatigues to which a soldier must submit in the field, for which reason their brigade soon became so weak that it could hardly protect the colours, and wherever @@ -10858,7 +10837,7 @@ the whole army, in which many such companions are to be found, do suffer, is not to be described. The basest of horse-boys, that doth naught but forage, is worth to the general more than one thousand such, that do make a trade of such foraging and lie at ease without excuse -upon their bear-skins,<a name="div2_30" href="#div2Ref_30"><sup>[30]</sup></a> till they be taken off by the adversary or +upon their bear-skins,<a id="div2_30" href="#div2Ref_30"><sup>[30]</sup></a> till they be taken off by the adversary or be rapped over the fingers when they do meddle with the peasants. So is the army weakened and the enemy strengthened: and even if a scurvy rogue of this kind (I mean not the poor sick man, but the riders @@ -10876,7 +10855,7 @@ nor how many a spy can be concealed among them if he know but enough to give the name of a regiment and a company in the army. To this honourable brotherhood I now must belong, and so remained till the day before the Battle of Wittenweier, at which time our headquarters were -at Schüttern: for going then with my comrades into the county of +at Schüttern: for going then with my comrades into the county of Geroldseck to steal cows and oxen I was taken prisoner by the troops of Weimar, that knew far better how to treat us, for they made us take musquets and distributed us in different regiments: and so I came into @@ -10891,7 +10870,7 @@ YET ESCAPE DEATH</p> <p class="continue">Now could I well understand I was born but for misfortune, for some weeks before the engagement happened I heard some lower officers of -Götz's army that talked of our war: and says one, "Without a battle +Götz's army that talked of our war: and says one, "Without a battle will this summer not pass: and if we win, in the next winter we shall surely take Freiburg and the Forest-towns: but if we earn a defeat we shall earn winter quarters too." Upon this prophecy I laid my plans and @@ -10912,7 +10891,7 @@ Egypt, that is, on the Westphalian hams and sausages of Lippstadt. Yet did I think but little on my wife, and when I did so I did but plague myself with the thought that she might be untrue to me. At last was I so impatient that I declared to my captain how my affairs stood and -wrote by the post to Lippstadt, and so heard from Colonel Saint André +wrote by the post to Lippstadt, and so heard from Colonel Saint André and my father-in-law that they had, by letters to the Duke of Weimar, secured that my captain should let me go with a pass.</p> @@ -11027,7 +11006,7 @@ had properly filled his purse. "Brother," says I, "thou livest in dangerous estate, and if thou art caught in such a villainy, how thinkest thou 'twould fare with thee?" "Aha," says he, "I perceive thou art still the old Simplicissimus: I know well that he that would win -must stake somewhat: but remember that their lordships<a name="div2_31" href="#div2Ref_31"><sup>[31]</sup></a> of Nuremberg +must stake somewhat: but remember that their lordships<a id="div2_31" href="#div2Ref_31"><sup>[31]</sup></a> of Nuremberg hang no man till they catch him." So I answered, "Yea, but put the case, brother, that thou art not caught, which is yet but unlikely, since the pitcher that goes often to the well must break at last, yet @@ -11233,7 +11212,7 @@ peasants have fought for their own in churches as if 'twere in fortresses. And why, then, should it not be allowed to me--to me, I say, as a soldier--to ply my trade in a church, whereas aforetime two holy fathers did for the mere sake of precedence cause such a -blood-bath in a church<a name="div2_32" href="#div2Ref_32"><sup>[32]</sup></a> that 'twas more like to a slaughter-house +blood-bath in a church<a id="div2_32" href="#div2Ref_32"><sup>[32]</sup></a> that 'twas more like to a slaughter-house than a holy place? Yea, I would not so act if any did come here to do God's service; for I am but of the lay people: yet they, that were clergymen, respected not the high majesty of the emperor himself. And @@ -11282,7 +11261,7 @@ moneyless, cared not at all that she could wear no maiden's garland again, but began to pay her court, the which her mother well allowed, not only because her daughter might so recover her reputation but also because my father possessed all knowledge of the business and in -especial could well wield the Jews' Spear.<a name="div2_33" href="#div2Ref_33"><sup>[33]</sup></a> And so by this marriage +especial could well wield the Jews' Spear.<a id="div2_33" href="#div2Ref_33"><sup>[33]</sup></a> And so by this marriage was my father in a moment a rich man and I his son and heir, whom for his wealth's sake he caused to be tenderly brought up: so was I kept in clothes like a young nobleman, in food like a baron, and in attendance @@ -11326,7 +11305,7 @@ spent my youth."</p> <br> <br> <br> -<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. xviii.</i>: HOW HE STUDIED AT LIEGE, AND HOW HE THERE DEMEANED +<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. xviii.</i>: HOW HE STUDIED AT LIÈGE, AND HOW HE THERE DEMEANED HIMSELF</p> <br> @@ -11336,7 +11315,7 @@ study, but said no word of all my other faults or at least would excuse them, seeing well that any that did not so could never stand well with my father and mother. And so had they more pleasure in their son than ever had a tomtit that has reared a young cuckoo. So they hired for me -a special tutor, and sent me with him to Liège, more to learn foreign +a special tutor, and sent me with him to Liège, more to learn foreign tongues than to study: for I was to be no theologian, but a trader. He, moreover, had his orders not to be hard with me, lest that should breed in me a fearful and servile spirit. He was to allow me freely to @@ -11367,11 +11346,11 @@ to my tutor. From these baggages I learned to wench and to game: how to quarrel, to wrestle, and to fight I knew well before, and my tutor in no wise forbade my debaucheries, since he himself was glad to take part in them. So for a year and a half did this monstrous fine life endure, -till my father did hear of it from one that was his factor in Liège, +till my father did hear of it from one that was his factor in Liège, with whom indeed we had at first lodged: this man received orders to keep a sharper eye upon us, to dismiss my tutor at once, to shorten my tether, and to examine into my expense more carefully. Which vexed us -both mightily: and though he, my tutor, had now his congé, yet did we +both mightily: and though he, my tutor, had now his congé, yet did we hold together, one way or the other, both by day and night: yet since we could no longer spend money as before, we did join ourselves to a rogue that robbed folks of their cloaks at night; yea, or did drown @@ -11388,7 +11367,7 @@ sent for, questioned concerning me, and I on his surety set free, yet so that I must remain in his house in arrest till further order taken. Meanwhile was my tutor buried, the other five punished as rogues, robbers and murderers, and my father informed of my case: upon which he -came himself with all haste to Liège, settled my business with money, +came himself with all haste to Liège, settled my business with money, preached me a sharp sermon, and shewed me what trouble and unhappiness I had caused him, yea, and told me it seemed as my mother would go desperate by reason of my ill conduct: and further threatened me, in @@ -11430,7 +11409,7 @@ my opportunity, and rode off to Cologne on the best horse I could find in his stables.</p> <p class="normal">"This horse did I sell, and forthwith lit upon even such a crew of -rogues and thieves as I had left at Liège. So at play they did know me +rogues and thieves as I had left at Liège. So at play they did know me for what I was and I them, for both did know so much. Straightway I was made one of their brotherhood, and was their helper in their nightly excursions. Yet when presently one of our band was caught in the Old @@ -11932,7 +11911,7 @@ there limped into the room a fellow with a stick in his hand, his head bound up, one arm in a sling, and clothes so poor that I would have given him not a penny for them: and so soon as the drawer was ware of him he would have cast him forth, for he smelt vilely and was so full -of lice that a man could have garrisoned the whole Swabian<a name="div2_34" href="#div2Ref_34"><sup>[34]</sup></a> heath +of lice that a man could have garrisoned the whole Swabian<a id="div2_34" href="#div2Ref_34"><sup>[34]</sup></a> heath with them. Yet he prayed he might but be allowed to warm himself, which yet was not granted. But I taking pity on him and interceding for him, with difficulty he was let to come to the stove: and there he looked @@ -11991,7 +11970,7 @@ him he would freely tell me how he had come into so evil a plight: for I thought he might perchance have been driven from his former place for weighty reasons or for some fault, and so degraded and brought to his present evil case. But "Brother," said he, "thou knowest that I was the -Count of Götz his factotum and dearest intimate friend: on t'other hand +Count of Götz his factotum and dearest intimate friend: on t'other hand thou knowest well how evil an end this last campaign hath come to under his generalship and command, wherein we not only lost the Battle of Wittenweier, but did also fail to raise the siege of Breisach. Seeing, @@ -12027,7 +12006,7 @@ pleasure; and while I offered up my prayers I found His help at hand: for the Rhine did cast me up on land where I did staunch my wounds with moss: and though in so doing I was nigh frozen, yet I found in me a special strength to creep from thence (for God helped me) so that I, -though miserably wounded, came to certain Merode-brothers<a name="div2_35" href="#div2Ref_35"><sup>[35]</sup></a> and +though miserably wounded, came to certain Merode-brothers<a id="div2_35" href="#div2Ref_35"><sup>[35]</sup></a> and soldiers' wives, that one and all had compassion on me though they knew me not: yet all already despaired of the relief of that fortress; and that did hurt me more than all my wounds: but they refreshed and @@ -12040,7 +12019,7 @@ men of our army that had their own surgeon with them: to him I gave a golden cross that I still had about my neck, for which he bound up my wounds so as to last till now. And in such poor plight, my good Simplicissimus, have I made shift so far, and am minded to reveal to no -man who I am till I see how the Count of Götz his affair will turn out. +man who I am till I see how the Count of Götz his affair will turn out. And now that I see thy goodness and faith, it breedeth in me great comfort that the good God hath not forsaken me: for this very morning, when I came from early mass and saw thee stand before the commandant's @@ -12063,7 +12042,7 @@ wounds.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. i.</i>; HOW SIMPLICISSIMUS TURNED PALMER AND WENT ON A PILGRIMAGE +<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. i.</i>: HOW SIMPLICISSIMUS TURNED PALMER AND WENT ON A PILGRIMAGE WITH HERZBRUDER</p> <br> @@ -12306,7 +12285,7 @@ damage and mine!" And so we disputed with one another childishly enough, because each was drunken with love of the other: thus was Herzbruder made at once my steward, my treasurer, my servant, and my master: and in our time of leisure he told me of his life and by what -means he was known and promoted by Count Götz, whereupon I told him how +means he was known and promoted by Count Götz, whereupon I told him how I had fared since his father (of pious memory) died: for until then we had never had so much time. But when he heard I had a young wife in Lippstadt, he did reprove me that I had not repaired to her rather than @@ -12319,7 +12298,7 @@ absence, namely, all manner of contrarious happenings, though greatly I had desired to be with her long ere now.</p> <p class="normal">Meanwhile Herzbruder, learning from the public prints that it stood -well with General Count Götz, and that in particular he would succeed +well with General Count Götz, and that in particular he would succeed in his vindication before his Imperial Majesty, would be set free, and even again receive command of an army, sent an account of how he stood to that general at Vienna, and wrote also to the Bavarian army on the @@ -12332,7 +12311,7 @@ together could build: so too I made acquaintance with certain alchymists that, because they saw I had money at my back, would teach me to make gold, an I would but bear the expense of it: yea, and I do believe they had persuaded me thereto had not Herzbruder given them -their congé, saying that he that possessed such an art would not need +their congé, saying that he that possessed such an art would not need to go about like a beggar, nor to ask others for money.</p> <p class="normal">But though Herzbruder did receive from Vienna a gracious answer from @@ -12349,7 +12328,7 @@ Vienna.</p> <br> <br> <br> -<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. iv.</i>; IN WHAT MANNER SIMPLICISSIMUS AND HERZBRUDER WENT TO THE +<p class="hang1" style="color:red"><i>Chap. iv.</i>: IN WHAT MANNER SIMPLICISSIMUS AND HERZBRUDER WENT TO THE WARS AGAIN AND RETURNED THENCE</p> <br> @@ -12370,12 +12349,12 @@ along which my foolishness did lead me.</p> <p class="normal">For the Count von der Wahl, under whose command I had before made myself famous in Westphalia, was even then in Vienna when I came thither with Herzbruder: which last was at a banquet when divers -Imperialist councillors of war were present with the Count of Götz and +Imperialist councillors of war were present with the Count of Götz and others, where the talk was of all manner of strange fellows, soldiers of different qualities, and famous partisans: and there was mention made of the huntsman of Soest, and such famous exploits of him told that some wondered at the youth of the fellow and lamented that the -crafty Hessian colonel Saint André had hung a weight round his neck so +crafty Hessian colonel Saint André had hung a weight round his neck so that he must either lay aside the sword or serve under Swedish colours: for the said Count von der Wahl had found out all the trick which the same colonel had played me at Lippstadt. Herzbruder, that was there @@ -12388,7 +12367,7 @@ one that would yield place to no engineer in the world: that he had left not only his wife (that had been so shamefully imposed upon him), but all that he had at Lippstadt, and again sought the emperor's service, and so had in the last campaign served under the Count of -Götz, and being then taken by the troops of Weimar and desiring to +Götz, and being then taken by the troops of Weimar and desiring to return to the Imperialists, had with his comrade slain a corporal and six musqueteers that had pursued them and would bring them back, and had earned rich booty thereby, and so had come with him to Vienna with @@ -12418,7 +12397,7 @@ counted no more than seven privates that could stand sentry. Besides, my under-officers were such old cripples that I must needs scratch my head when I looked upon them. And so it came about that in the next engagement, which happened not long after, I was with them miserably -beaten: in which affair Count von Götz lost his life and Herzbruder his +beaten: in which affair Count von Götz lost his life and Herzbruder his testicles, which were shot away: and I had my share in the leg though 'twas but a trifling wound. Whereupon we betook ourselves to Vienna, there to be cured, and also because we had there left all our property. @@ -12489,7 +12468,7 @@ between the two parties.</p> me his Ganymede, to ask how it fared with the property I had left there: but him I found quite brain-sick again and full of anger against the human race. "O Mercury," says he, as soon as he saw me, "what news -from Münster? Do men conceive they can make peace without my good will? +from Münster? Do men conceive they can make peace without my good will? Nay, never! they did have peace. Why kept they it not? Was not vice everywhere triumphant when they provoked me to send them war? And how have they deserved that I should give them peace again? Have they since @@ -12545,7 +12524,7 @@ me, as from a messenger, how it fared with Simplicissimus and of what rank he was now. In the end mine own sister-in-law did at length converse with me, I telling of myself all the good I knew; for my pock-pitted face had so marred and changed me that no man could know me -more, save Herr von Schönstein: and he, as my true friend, did hold his +more, save Herr von Schönstein: and he, as my true friend, did hold his tongue. But I telling her at length how Herr Simplicissimus had many fine horses and servants and rode abroad in a black-velvet coat all trimmed with gold, "Yea," said she, "I did ever believe he was of no @@ -12611,7 +12590,7 @@ Herzbruder lacked none of my care. Yet because I knew myself now for a widower, the fine weather and my young blood enticed me to wantonness, whereunto I did fully give myself over; for the fear that had possessed me at Einsiedeln I had now quite forgot. Now there was at the spa a -fair lady<a name="div2_36" href="#div2Ref_36"><sup>[36]</sup></a> that gave herself out to be a person of quality, yet was +fair lady<a id="div2_36" href="#div2Ref_36"><sup>[36]</sup></a> that gave herself out to be a person of quality, yet was to my thinking more "mobilis" than "nobilis": to this man-trap did I pay my constant court as to one that seemed a bona roba, and in brief space of time did obtain not only free entry to her but also all such @@ -12627,7 +12606,7 @@ whom was stolen not only his money, but his wife's jewellery, which was of gold, silver, pearls, and precious stones. And since 'tis as grievous to lose such things as 'tis hard to get them, therefore the said Switzer would move heaven and earth to come by them again, and did -even send for the famous devil-driver of the Goatskin,<a name="div2_37" href="#div2Ref_37"><sup>[37]</sup></a> which +even send for the famous devil-driver of the Goatskin,<a id="div2_37" href="#div2Ref_37"><sup>[37]</sup></a> which did so plague the thief by his charms that he must needs restore the stolen goods to their proper place: for which the wizard earned ten rix-dollars.</p> @@ -12816,7 +12795,7 @@ At which he doffed his cap and "Your worship," says he, "that I m tell you." "How," said I, "surely thou hast not stolen the beast?" "Nay," answered the peasant, "but I bring him from a village there in the valley, the which I may not mention to your worship in the presence -of a goat"<a name="div2_38" href="#div2Ref_38"><sup>[38]</sup></a> which caused my company to laugh, and because I changed +of a goat"<a id="div2_38" href="#div2Ref_38"><sup>[38]</sup></a> which caused my company to laugh, and because I changed colour they deemed I was vexed or ashamed that the peasant did answer me so neatly. Yet my thoughts were otherwise, for by the great wart that this peasant had, like an unicorn, in the middle of his forehead, @@ -12862,13 +12841,13 @@ him so much as I: which, for so rich people, did amaze me, yet made me not more niggardly: for I took him to my new-bought farm and paid him for his goat, and when I had him half-foxed I asked of him whence came the lad to him of whom we spoke to-day. "Ah, your worship," says he, -"the Mansfeld war brought him to me and the Nördlingen battle took him +"the Mansfeld war brought him to me and the Nördlingen battle took him away again." "And that," quoth I, "must be a merry story," and so I begged him, since we had naught else to talk of, to tell it me to pass the time.</p> -<p class="normal">With that he began, and says he, "When Mansfeld<a name="div2_39" href="#div2Ref_39"><sup>[39]</sup></a> lost the battle at -Höchst, his people were scattered abroad as not knowing whither to +<p class="normal">With that he began, and says he, "When Mansfeld<a id="div2_39" href="#div2Ref_39"><sup>[39]</sup></a> lost the battle at +Höchst, his people were scattered abroad as not knowing whither to flee: of whom many came into the Spessart, seeking woods wherein to hide them: but though they had escaped death on the plains they found it in the hills: for since both parties thought it their right to @@ -12914,7 +12893,7 @@ grown, and for my trouble and cost should keep all the lady's property save a few rosaries and precious stones and jewellery, which I should keep for the child. So my wife did nourish the babe with goat's milk, and we loved the lad, and did think when he should be grown up to give -him our daughter to wife: but after the battle at Nördlingen did I lose +him our daughter to wife: but after the battle at Nördlingen did I lose both boy and girl and all that I possessed."</p> <p class="normal">"Now," says I to my dad, "ye have told me a pretty tale enough and yet @@ -13083,7 +13062,7 @@ that there could be such a bottomless lake upon a high mountain. But there were other peasants, and those old and credible men, that affirmed that within their own and their father's memory high and princely persons had journeyed to behold the said lake, and that a -reigning Duke of Würtemberg had caused a raft to be made, and had put +reigning Duke of Würtemberg had caused a raft to be made, and had put out into the lake thereupon to sound its depth: but that after the measures had already let down nine thread-cables (which is a measure of length better understanded of the peasants' wives of the Black Forest @@ -13092,7 +13071,7 @@ found no bottom, the raft, contrary to the nature of wood, began to sink, so that they that were upon it must perforce give up their purpose and make all haste to land, and so to this day can be seen the fragments of the raft on the shore of the lake, with the arms of -Würtemberg and other matters carved upon the wood for a memorial of +Würtemberg and other matters carved upon the wood for a memorial of this history. Others called many witnesses to prove that a certain archduke of Austria had desired to drain the lake, but was by many dissuaded and at the petition of the people of the land the plan given @@ -13116,7 +13095,7 @@ entirely to believe them, and they did so move my curiosity that I determined to visit this wondrous lake. But of those that with me had listened to the whole story one judged one way and another another, from which sufficiently appeared their different and contradictory ways -of thinking. For my part I said the German name Mummelsee<a name="div2_40" href="#div2Ref_40"><sup>[40]</sup></a> +of thinking. For my part I said the German name Mummelsee<a id="div2_40" href="#div2Ref_40"><sup>[40]</sup></a> sufficiently declared that there was about the thing, as about a masquerade, some disguise, so that none might fathom either its nature or its depth, which had never yet been discovered, though such high @@ -13188,7 +13167,7 @@ when he hath paid for his present taste with sore distaste, he will have naught but repentance and weary feet (for a man can hardly come to the place by riding) and the way back instead of the way thither. Nor should ever any man have had me to go thither had I not been forced to -flee there when Doctor Daniel (by which he meant Duc d'Anguin<a name="div2_41" href="#div2Ref_41"><sup>[41]</sup></a>) +flee there when Doctor Daniel (by which he meant Duc d'Anguin<a id="div2_41" href="#div2Ref_41"><sup>[41]</sup></a>) marched with his troops down through the country to Philippsburg." Yet my curiosity would not be turned aside by his dissuasion, but I got me a fellow that should guide me thither; so my father, seeing my fixed @@ -13208,7 +13187,7 @@ what meat and drink we had brought with us, for the long journey and the high mountain on which the lake lieth had made us both hungry and thirsty. So having refreshed ourselves I did inspect the lake, and found lying in it certain hewn timbers which my dad and I took to be -the remains of the Würtemberg raft: and I by geometry took or estimated +the remains of the Würtemberg raft: and I by geometry took or estimated the length and breadth of the water (for 'twas far too wearisome to go round the lake and measure it by paces or feet), and entered the dimensions, by means of the scale of reduction, in my tablets. And @@ -13373,7 +13352,7 @@ had fetched the golden fleece home from Colchis.</p> <p class="normal">But alas! my joy, of which I vainly hoped for the everlasting continuance, endured not long, for hardly was I gone from that lake of -wonders when I began to go astray in that rhonstrous wood, for I had +wonders when I began to go astray in that monstrous wood, for I had not marked from what direction my dad had brought me to the lake. Yet I went some way on before I was aware of my mistake, ever making calculations how I could plant that noble spring on my farm, and build @@ -13441,7 +13420,7 @@ dispute one against another who I might be: they held that I could be no soldier because I wore black clothing, nor no townsman-blade, that could so suddenly appear far from all men's dwellings in the Muckenloch (for so was the wood called) at so unwonted a time. At the last they -resolved I must be a journeyman Latinist<a name="div2_42" href="#div2Ref_42"><sup>[42]</sup></a> that had lost his way, or, +resolved I must be a journeyman Latinist<a id="div2_42" href="#div2Ref_42"><sup>[42]</sup></a> that had lost his way, or, as I myself had declared, a travelling scholar, because I could so excellently tell fortunes. "Yea," says another, "yet he knew not all for that reason: 'tis some wandering soldier, maybe, that hath so @@ -13541,7 +13520,7 @@ MOSCOW IN RUSSIA</p> <p class="continue">The same autumn there drew near to us French, Swedish, and Hessian troops to refresh themselves among us and to keep the Free City in the -neighbourhood (which was built by an English king,<a name="div2_43" href="#div2Ref_43"><sup>[43]</sup></a> and called after +neighbourhood (which was built by an English king,<a id="div2_43" href="#div2Ref_43"><sup>[43]</sup></a> and called after his name) blockaded, for which cause every man gathered together his cattle and the best of his goods and fled into the woods among the mountains. I too did as my neighbours did and left my house pretty well @@ -13580,7 +13559,7 @@ and give me the post of lieutenant-colonel in the regiment he was to have.</p> <p class="normal">And so the die was cast; and I sent for my dad or foster-father, which -was still with my cattle at Bairischbrunn;<a name="div2_44" href="#div2Ref_44"><sup>[44]</sup></a> and to him and his wife +was still with my cattle at Bairischbrunn;<a id="div2_44" href="#div2Ref_44"><sup>[44]</sup></a> and to him and his wife I devised my farm as their own property; yet on condition that after his death my bastard Simplicissimus that had been laid at my door should inherit it with all appurtenances, since there were no heirs @@ -14277,7 +14256,7 @@ lady: and thereupon was the bargain I spoke of concluded between them, namely, that he should slay me with his axe from behind or in my sleep; for he was afeared of my great strength of body, as well as of my staff, which he had himself fashioned for me as strong as a weaver's -beam.<a name="div2_45" href="#div2Ref_45"><sup>[45]</sup></a></p> +beam.<a id="div2_45" href="#div2Ref_45"><sup>[45]</sup></a></p> <p class="normal">So this compact being made, she shewed my comrade close to our dwelling a kind of fine potter's earth, of which she promised to make fine @@ -14784,111 +14763,111 @@ it with the fire.</p> <br> <h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> <br> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_01" href="#div2_01">Footnote 1</a>: <i>Lit.</i>, "Bohemian Villages," <i>i.e.</i>, with unpronounceable +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_01" href="#div2_01">Footnote 1</a>: <i>Lit.</i>, "Bohemian Villages," <i>i.e.</i>, with unpronounceable names.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_02" href="#div2_02">Footnote 2</a>: William, Duke of Aquitaine, and afterwards a Saint noted +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_02" href="#div2_02">Footnote 2</a>: William, Duke of Aquitaine, and afterwards a Saint noted for the acerbity of his penances.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_03" href="#div2_03">Footnote 3</a>: A proverb: on Saint Gertrude's day spinning ceases and +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_03" href="#div2_03">Footnote 3</a>: A proverb: on Saint Gertrude's day spinning ceases and garden-work begins.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_04" href="#div2_04">Footnote 4</a>: Viz. "ihnen den Hintern zu lecken."</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_04" href="#div2_04">Footnote 4</a>: Viz. "ihnen den Hintern zu lecken."</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_05" href="#div2_05">Footnote 5</a>: The commandments are here numbered according to the Roman +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_05" href="#div2_05">Footnote 5</a>: The commandments are here numbered according to the Roman arrangement, but the meaning is obscure.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_06" href="#div2_06">Footnote 6</a>: The hermit.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_06" href="#div2_06">Footnote 6</a>: The hermit.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_07" href="#div2_07">Footnote 7</a>: <i>i.e.</i> full of innocence.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_07" href="#div2_07">Footnote 7</a>: <i>i.e.</i> full of innocence.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_08" href="#div2_08">Footnote 8</a>: Given as an example of a Roman of luxurious tastes.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_08" href="#div2_08">Footnote 8</a>: Given as an example of a Roman of luxurious tastes.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_09" href="#div2_09">Footnote 9</a>: Refers to an episode omitted in this translation.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_09" href="#div2_09">Footnote 9</a>: Refers to an episode omitted in this translation.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_10" href="#div2_10">Footnote 10</a>: Allusion to a cruel practice in use in falconry.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_10" href="#div2_10">Footnote 10</a>: Allusion to a cruel practice in use in falconry.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_11" href="#div2_11">Footnote 11</a>: Proverbial: an allusion to a popular story.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_11" href="#div2_11">Footnote 11</a>: Proverbial: an allusion to a popular story.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_12" href="#div2_12">Footnote 12</a>: Lit. there are folk dwelling beyond the mountains too.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_12" href="#div2_12">Footnote 12</a>: Lit. there are folk dwelling beyond the mountains too.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_13" href="#div2_13">Footnote 13</a>: I.e., he was bewitched.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_13" href="#div2_13">Footnote 13</a>: I.e., he was bewitched.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_14" href="#div2_14">Footnote 14</a>: Hessian General.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_14" href="#div2_14">Footnote 14</a>: Hessian General.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_15" href="#div2_15">Footnote 15</a>: It is difficult to translate the German expression. +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_15" href="#div2_15">Footnote 15</a>: It is difficult to translate the German expression. Probably this word, meaning a maritime trader in illicit wares, represents it best.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_16" href="#div2_16">Footnote 16</a>: Obscure lines: many of the expressions in this chapter +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_16" href="#div2_16">Footnote 16</a>: Obscure lines: many of the expressions in this chapter are now inexplicable.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_17" href="#div2_17">Footnote 17</a>: He wrote the words down as he was told as if they meant +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_17" href="#div2_17">Footnote 17</a>: He wrote the words down as he was told as if they meant the <i>judge's</i> mother.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_18" href="#div2_18">Footnote 18</a>: The cuirass would be well lined to prevent chafing.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_18" href="#div2_18">Footnote 18</a>: The cuirass would be well lined to prevent chafing.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_19" href="#div2_19">Footnote 19</a>: Some 120 years before.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_19" href="#div2_19">Footnote 19</a>: Some 120 years before.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_20" href="#div2_20">Footnote 20</a>: Besieged by the Spaniards from 1601 to 1604.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_20" href="#div2_20">Footnote 20</a>: Besieged by the Spaniards from 1601 to 1604.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_21" href="#div2_21">Footnote 21</a>: A kind of Eldorado.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_21" href="#div2_21">Footnote 21</a>: A kind of Eldorado.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_22" href="#div2_22">Footnote 22</a>: The famous cavalry commander of the Imperialists.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_22" href="#div2_22">Footnote 22</a>: The famous cavalry commander of the Imperialists.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_23" href="#div2_23">Footnote 23</a>: The musqueteer supported his piece on a prop or stake.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_23" href="#div2_23">Footnote 23</a>: The musqueteer supported his piece on a prop or stake.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_24" href="#div2_24">Footnote 24</a>: See chap. iii.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_24" href="#div2_24">Footnote 24</a>: See chap. iii.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_25" href="#div2_25">Footnote 25</a>: viz. Lippstadt.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_25" href="#div2_25">Footnote 25</a>: viz. Lippstadt.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_26" href="#div2_26">Footnote 26</a>: The initials only of the name are given in the original.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_26" href="#div2_26">Footnote 26</a>: The initials only of the name are given in the original.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_27" href="#div2_27">Footnote 27</a>: The pastor was 'Reformed' (i.e. Calvinist).</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_27" href="#div2_27">Footnote 27</a>: The pastor was 'Reformed' (i.e. Calvinist).</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_28" href="#div2_28">Footnote 28</a>: I.e., at the Antipodes: "at the other end of the world."</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_28" href="#div2_28">Footnote 28</a>: I.e., at the Antipodes: "at the other end of the world."</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_29" href="#div2_29">Footnote 29</a>: Referring to a body of Breton troops sent by Richelieu to -help Guébriant. They turned out worthless.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_29" href="#div2_29">Footnote 29</a>: Referring to a body of Breton troops sent by Richelieu to +help Guébriant. They turned out worthless.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_30" href="#div2_30">Footnote 30</a>: "Bearskinner" was the troopers' name for a malingerer. It +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_30" href="#div2_30">Footnote 30</a>: "Bearskinner" was the troopers' name for a malingerer. It was taken from a very old legend.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_31" href="#div2_31">Footnote 31</a>: The allusion is to the escape of the robber-knight, +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_31" href="#div2_31">Footnote 31</a>: The allusion is to the escape of the robber-knight, Eppelin von Gailingen, from the Castle of Nuremberg.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_32" href="#div2_32">Footnote 32</a>: In 1063 the retainers of the Bishop of Hildesheim and the +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_32" href="#div2_32">Footnote 32</a>: In 1063 the retainers of the Bishop of Hildesheim and the Abbot of Fulda fought in church at Goslar, and much bloodshed ensued.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_33" href="#div2_33">Footnote 33</a>: Act as a usurer or cheat.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_33" href="#div2_33">Footnote 33</a>: Act as a usurer or cheat.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_34" href="#div2_34">Footnote 34</a>: He may possibly mean the three old fortifications of +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_34" href="#div2_34">Footnote 34</a>: He may possibly mean the three old fortifications of which ruins still remain: Schwaben-, Schweden-, and Alexander-schanze; all of which are close to his favourite spa at Griesbach.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_35" href="#div2_35">Footnote 35</a>: See chap. xi. above.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_35" href="#div2_35">Footnote 35</a>: See chap. xi. above.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_36" href="#div2_36">Footnote 36</a>: This was "Courage," the heroine of some of +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_36" href="#div2_36">Footnote 36</a>: This was "Courage," the heroine of some of Grimmelshausen's later romances.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_37" href="#div2_37">Footnote 37</a>: Unknown.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_37" href="#div2_37">Footnote 37</a>: Unknown.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_38" href="#div2_38">Footnote 38</a>: The jest is now unintelligible.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_38" href="#div2_38">Footnote 38</a>: The jest is now unintelligible.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_39" href="#div2_39">Footnote 39</a>: It was really Christian of Brunswick, marching to join +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_39" href="#div2_39">Footnote 39</a>: It was really Christian of Brunswick, marching to join Mansfeld.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_40" href="#div2_40">Footnote 40</a>: "Goblin" or rather "bogey" lake.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_40" href="#div2_40">Footnote 40</a>: "Goblin" or rather "bogey" lake.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_41" href="#div2_41">Footnote 41</a>: D'Enghien.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_41" href="#div2_41">Footnote 41</a>: D'Enghien.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_42" href="#div2_42">Footnote 42</a>: A hedge schoolmaster.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_42" href="#div2_42">Footnote 42</a>: A hedge schoolmaster.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_43" href="#div2_43">Footnote 43</a>: Offa. Offenburg.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_43" href="#div2_43">Footnote 43</a>: Offa. Offenburg.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_44" href="#div2_44">Footnote 44</a>: Baiersbronn.</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_44" href="#div2_44">Footnote 44</a>: Baiersbronn.</p> -<p class="hang1"><a name="div2Ref_45" href="#div2_45">Footnote 45</a>: Literally "a Bohemian ear-picker."</p> +<p class="hang1"><a id="div2Ref_45" href="#div2_45">Footnote 45</a>: Literally "a Bohemian ear-picker."</p> <br> <br> <br> @@ -14900,387 +14879,6 @@ London</h4> <br> <br> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventurous Simplicissimus being -the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim, by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTUROUS *** - -***** This file should be named 33858-h.htm or 33858-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/8/5/33858/ - -Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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