es 485 73 107
12 " Sheep 4616 -- 4596
4 " Goats 158 26 286]

[Footnote 41: Brazier here means tinker and scythe-sharpener. The
oldest accounts of them are in a free paraphrase of the 1st Book of
Moses, in rude verses, which were at all events written before 1122;
printed in 'Hoffmann's Fundgrubben,' 2. There they are represented as
foreign Jew traders. These remarkable verses are as follows:--

"From Ishmael come the Ishmaelitish people;
They go peddling throughout the wide world;
We call them braziers.
Oh! what a life and habits are theirs!
On all they have for sale
There is a blot, and it is unsound.
If he, the brazier, buys anything,
Good or bad, one must give him somewhat over;
And if he sells his wares
He never replaces the damaged ones.
They have neither house nor home--
Every place is alike to them;
They rove through the country,
And cheat the people with their tricks:
Thus they deceive mankind.
They rob, but not openly."]

[Footnote 42: Here, and further on, he gives the fixed characters of
the old Italian comedy.]

[Footnote 43: Some tedious passages are shortened, and it is necessary
in one place to soften the angry expressions for the reader of this
book.]

[Footnote 44: They did not fail to make an engraving of the mysterious
doves, which appeared shortly after with an interpretation.]

[Footnote 45: A copper coin in the south of Germany.]

[Footnote 46: A Swiss farthing.]

[Footnote 47: The Diet was then held at Baden, because the foreign
diplomatist could best be entertained there.]

[Footnote 48: It was particularly offensive to them, as an elder sister
of Anton Ulrich's wife had just married the master of the Ducal Chapel,
Schurmann, at Meiningen.]

THE END.

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