come); who, except him of the sacramental wine, with "ICH DIEN"
for son, are good for little; and deserve no memory from mankind
except as they may stick, not easily extricable, to the history of
nobler men:--of them also I could wish to be silent, but must not.
Must at least explain how they came in, as "Luxemburg Kurfursts"
in Brandenburg; and how they went out, leaving Brandenburg not
annihilated, but very near it.


END OF RESUSCITATED WALDEMAR; KURFURST LUDWIG SELLS OUT.

Imaginary Waldemar being still busy in Brandenburg, it was natural
for Kaiser Karl to find him genuine, and keep up that goblin-dance
round poor Kurfurst Ludwig, the late Kaiser's son, by no means a
lover of Karl's. Considerable support was managed to be raised for
Waldemar. Kaiser Karl regularly infeoffed him as real Kurfurst, so
far as parchment could do it; and in case of his decease, says
Karl's diploma farther, the Princes of Anhalt shall succeed,--
Ludwig in any case is to be zero henceforth. War followed, or what
they called war: much confused invading, bickering and throttling,
for two years to come. "Most of the Towns declared for Waldemar,
and their old Anhalt line of Margraves:" Ludwig and the Bavarian
sort are clearly not popular here. Ludwig held out strenuously,
however; would not be beaten. He had the King of Denmark for
Brother-in-law; had connections in the Reich: perhaps still better
he had the REICHS-INSIGNIA, lately his Father's, still in hand.
He stood obstinate siege from the Kaiser's people and the
Anhalters; shouted-in Denmark to help; started an Anti-Kaiser, as
we said,--temporary Anti-Kaiser Gunther of Schwartzburg, whom the
reader can forget a second time:--in brief, Ludwig contrived to