life-threads, always, in this "loud-roaring Loom of Time!"--

Along with Ottocar too, as an ally in the Crusade, was Otto III.
Ascanier Markgraf and Elector of Brandenburg, great-grandson of
Albert the Bear;--name Otto THE PIOUS in consequence. He too
founded a Town in Prussia, on this occasion, and called it
BRANDENBURG; which is still extant there, a small Brandenburg the
Second; for these procedures he is called Otto THE PIOUS in
History. His Wife, withal, was a sister of Ottocar's; [Michaelis,
i. 270; Hubner, t. 174.]--which, except in the way of domestic
felicity, did not in the end amount to much for him; this Ottocar
having flown too high, and melted his wings at the sun, in a sad
way, as we shall see elsewhere.

None of the Orders rose so high as the Teutonic in favor with
mankind. It had by degrees landed possessions far and wide over
Germany and beyond: I know not how many dozens of BALLEYS (rich
Bailliwicks, each again with its dozens of COMTHUREIS,
Commanderies, or subordinate groups of estates), and Baillies and
Commanders to match;--and was thought to deserve favor from above.
Valiant servants, these; to whom Heaven had vouchsafed great
labors and unspeakable blessings. In some fifty or fifty-three
years they had got Prussian Heathenism brought to the ground;
and they endeavored to tie it well down there by bargain and
arrangement. But it would not yet lie quiet, nor for a century to
come; being still secretly Heathen; revolting, conspiring ever
again, ever on weaker terms, till the Satanic element had burnt
itself out, and conversion and composure could ensue.

Conversion and complete conquest once come, there was a happy time