everybody,--this Karl IV. is the Kaiser who discovered the Well of
KARLSBAD (Bath of Karl), known to Tourists of this day; and made
the GOLDEN BULL, which I forbid all Englishmen to take for an
agricultural Prize Animal, the thing being far other, as is known
to several.

There is little farther to be said of Karl in Reichs-History.
An unesteemed creature; who strove to make his time peaceable in
this world, by giving from the Holy Roman Empire with both hands
to every bull-beggar, or ready-payer who applied. Sad sign what
the Roman Empire had come and was coming to. The Kaiser's shield,
set up aloft in the Roncalic Plain in Barbarossa's time,
intimated, and in earnest too, "Ho, every one that has suffered
wrong!"--intimates now, "Ho, every one that can bully me, or has
money in his pocket!" Unadmiring posterity has confirmed the
nickname of this Karl IV.; and calls him PFAFFEN-KAISER. He kept
mainly at Prag, ready for receipt of cash, and holding well out of
harm's way. In younger years he had been much about the French
Court; in Italy he had suffered troubles, almost assassinations;
much blown to and fro, poor light wretch, on the chaotic Winds of
his Time,--steering towards no star.

Johann, King of Bohemia, did not live to see Karl an acknowledged
Kaiser. Old Johann, blind for some time back, had perished two
years before that event;--bequeathing a Heraldic Symbol to the
World's History and to England's, if nothing more. Poor man, he
had crusaded in Preussen in a brilliant manner, being fond of
fighting. He wrung Silesia, gradually by purchase and entreaty
( pretio ac prece ), from the Polish King;
[1327-1341 (Kohler, p. 302).] joined IT firmly to Bohemia and