bring Kaiser Karl, and Imaginary Waldemar with his Anhalters, to a
quietus and negotiation, and to get Brandenburg cleared of them.
Year 1349, they went their ways; and that devils'-dance, which had
raged five years and more round Ludwig, was fairly got laid or
lulled again.

Imaginary Waldemar, after some farther ineffectual wrigglings,
retired altogether into private life, at the Court of Dessau;
and happily died before long. Died at the Court of Dessau;
the Anhalt Cousins treating him to the last as Head Representative
of Albert the Bear, and real Prince Waldemar; for which they had
their reasons. Portraits of this False Waldemar still turn up in
the German Print-shops; [In Kloss ( Vaterlandische
Gemalde, ii. 29), a sorry Compilation, above referred
to, without value except for the old Excerpts, &c., there is a
Copy of it.] and represent a very absurd fellow, much muffled in
drapery, mouth partially open, eyes wholly and widely so,--never
yet recovered from his astonishment at himself and things in
general! How it fared with poor Brandenburg, in these chaotic
throttlings and vicissitudes, under the Bavarian Kurfursts, we can
too well imagine; and that is little to what lies ahead for it.

However, in that same year, 1349, temporary quietus having come,
Kurfurst Ludwig, weary of the matter, gave it over to his Brother:
"Have not I an opulent Maultasche, Gorgon-Wife, susceptible to
kindness, in the Tyrol; have not I in the Reich elsewhere
resources, appliances?" thought Kurfurst Ludwig. And gave the
thing over to his next Brother. Brother whose name also is LUDWIG
(as their Father's also had been, three Ludwigs at once, for our
dear Germans shine in nomenclature): "Ludwig THE ROMAN" this new