The Legend of Ulenspiegel

canal, but in the pouches and pockets of his people. Thence is it that sovereign houses draw crusadoes, silver daelders, gold lions, and all those miraculous fishes that ch

His Sacred Majesty resolved that the fish

habitants of Valladolid, to testify their joy, should hold revelry and feast all night long

or by the city. In five other carfaxes there should be displayed, upon wooden stages, sausages, s

umber of triumphal arches representing Peace, Felicity, Abundance, Propitious Fortune, and emblems of

ours less benignant emblems, as lions, eagles, lances, halberds, pikes with wavy bladed heads, hackbuts, cannons, falco

Guild of Candlemakers to make free gratis and for nothing more than twenty t

gladly bear them, thus showing his kindly det

The Holy Father had been made prisoner. For a whole week pillage had never ceased, and Reiters and Landsknechts were wandering through Rome, stuffed with food, drunken with wine, brandishing their weapons, hunting for cardinals, declaring they would cut enough out of their hides to save t

ng taken cognizance of the treaty imposed by his commanders upon the captive pontiff, he forced him to cede all th

ed all the joyous preparations, all feasts and rejoicings, a

tized in white robes, t

s interpreted this

e to the lords and ladies of the palace, that these

digestion of all nourishment; Messire van der Steen of Flanders gave a Ghent sausage five ells long and half an ell in thickness, wishing that at its mere fragrance His Highness might be thirsty for clauwaert in the manner of the people of Ghent, saying

l trot before him, hastening to plant themselves elsewhere with all their inhabitants,

of Veere in Zealand, gave Monseigneur Philip a stone,

e whimpered li

e bells, and said, dancing Ulenspiegel on his hand: "Bells, bells, tinkling bells may yo

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