out,--the last of them far too suddenly "at Olmutz," as we saw
lately! Some opposition there was, but much more favor especially
by the Bohemian People; and the point, after some small "Siege of
Prag" and the like, was definitely carried by the Kaiser. The now
Burggraf of Nurnberg, Friedrich IV., son of Rudolf's friend, was
present at this Siege of Prag; [1310 (Rentsch, p. 311).] a
Burggraf much attached to Kaiser Henry, as all good Germans were.
But the Kaiser did not live.

He went to Italy, our Burggraf of Nurnberg and many more along
with him, to pull the crooked Guelf-Ghibelline Facts and Avignon
Pope a little straight, if possible; and was vigorously doing it,
when he died on a sudden; "poisoned in sacramental wine," say the
Germans! One of the crowning summits of human scoundrelism, which
painfully stick in the mind. It is certain he arrived well at
Buonconvento near Sienna, on the 24th September, 1313, in full
march towards the rebellious King of Naples, whom the Pope much
countenanced. At Buonconvento, Kaiser Henry wished to enjoy the
communion; and a Dominican monk, whose dark rat-eyed look men
afterwards bethought them of, administered it to him in both
species (Council of Trent not yet quite prohibiting the liquid
species, least of all to Kaisers, who are by theory a kind of
"Deacons to the Pope," or something else [Voltaire, Essai
sur les Moeurs, c. 67,?? Henri VII. (
UEuvres, xxi. 184).]);--administered it in both
species: that is certain, and also that on the morrow Henry was
dead. The Dominicans endeavored afterwards to deny; which, for the
credit of human nature, one wishes they had done with effect.
[Kohler, p. 281 (Ptolemy of Lucca, himself a Dominican, is one of
the ACCUSING spirits: Muratori, l. xi. ?? Ptolomaeus