Burgermeister, while the matter was much fresher than it now is.
[Rudiger von Manesse, who fought the Austrians, too, made his
Sammlung (Collection) in the latter half of
the fourteenth century; it was printed, after many narrow risks of
destruction in the interim, in 1758,--Bodmer and Breitinger
editing;--at Zurich, 2 vols. 4to.] Madrigals all; MINNE-Songs,
describing the passion of love; how Otto felt under it,--well and
also ill; with little peculiarity of symptom, as appears. One of
his lines is,
"Ich wunsch ich were tot,
I wish that I were dead:"
--the others shall remain safe in Manesse's Collection.


This same Markgraf Otto IV., Year 1278, had a dreadful quarrel
with the See of Magdeburg, about electing a Brother of his.
The Chapter had chosen another than Otto's Brother; Otto makes war
upon the Chapter. Comes storming along; "will stable my horses in
your Cathedral," on such and such a day! But the Archbishop
chosen, who had been a fighter formerly, stirs up the
Magdeburgers, by preaching ("Horses to be stabled here, my
Christian brethren"), by relics, and quasi-miracles, to a furious
condition; leads them out against Otto, beats Otto utterly; brings
him in captive, amid hooting jubilations of the conceivable kind:
"Stable ready; but where are the horses,--Serene child of
Satanas!" Archbishop makes a Wooden Cage for Otto (big beams,
spars stout enough, mere straw to lie on), and locks him up there.
In a public situation in the City of Magdeburg;--visible to
mankind so, during certain months of that year 1278. It was in the
very time while Ottocar was getting finished in the Marchfeld;