conspicuous in the plain below, where the Town is just ending.
St. Elizabeth's Shrine was once there, and pilgrims wending to it
from all lands. Conrad himself is buried there, as are many
Hochmeisters; their names, and shields of arms, Hermann's
foremost, though Hermann's dust is not there, are carved,
carefully kept legible, on the shafts of the Gothic arches,--from
floor to groin, long rows of them;--and produce, with the other
tombs, tomb-paintings by Durer and the like, thoughts impressive
almost to pain. St. Elizabeth's LOCULUS was put into its shrine
here, by Kaiser Friedrich II. and all manner of princes and
grandees of the Empire, "one million two hundred thousand people
looking on," say the old records, perhaps not quite exact in their
arithmetic. Philip the Magnanimous, wishing to stop "pilgrimages
no-whither," buried the LOCULUS away, it was never known where;
under the floor of that Church somewhere, as is likeliest.
Enough now of Marburg, and of its Teutsch Ritters too.

They had one or two memorable Hochmeisters and Teutschmeisters;
whom we have not named here, nor shall. [In our excellent Kohler's
Muntzbelustigungen (Nurnberg, 1729 et seqq.
ii. 382; v. 102; viii. 380; &c.) are valuable glimpses into the
Teutonic Order,--as into hundreds of other things. The special
Book upon it is Voigt's, often cited here: Nine heavy Volumes;
grounded on faithful reading, but with a fatal defect of almost
every other quality.] There is one Hochmeister, somewhere about
the fiftieth on the list, and properly the last real Hochmeister,
Albert of Hohenzollern-Culmbach by name, who will be very
memorable to us by and by.

Or will the reader care to know how Culmbach came into the