meek, modest, and unspeakably in the right: Was ever Member of the

Holy Roman Empire so snubbed, and grasped by the windpipe, before?

Oh, help him, great Kaiser, bid the iron gripe loosen itself!"

[ Helden-Geschichte, ii, 86-116.] The Kaiser

does so, in heavy Latin rescripts, in German DEHORTATORIUMS more

than one, of a sulky, imperative, and indeed very lofty tenor;

"Let Georgius Ludovicus go, foolish rash young Dilection (LIEBDEN,

not MAJESTY, we ourselves being the only Majesty), and I will