coming to be Burggraf, by no means yet administering in
Brandenburg; and Ludwig junior seven years old in his new
dignity there.

The Teutsch Ritters, after infinite travail, have subdued heathen
Preussen; colonized the country with industrious German
immigrants; banked the Weichsel and the Nogat, subduing their
quagmires into meadows, and their waste streams into deep ship-
courses. Towns are built, Konigsberg (KING Ottocar's TOWN), Thoren
(Thorn, CITY of the GATES), with many others: so that the wild
population and the tame now lived tolerably together, under Gospel
and Lubeck Law; and all was ploughing and trading, and a rich
country; which had made the Teutsch Ritters rich, and victoriously
at their ease in comparison. But along with riches and the ease of
victory, the common bad consequences had ensued. Ritters given up
to luxuries, to secular ambitions; ritters no longer clad in
austere mail and prayer; ritters given up to wantonness of mind
and conduct; solemnly vowing, and quietly not doing; without
remorse or consciousness of wrong, daily eating forbidden fruit;
ritters swelling more and more into the fatted-ox condition, for
whom there is but one doom. How far they had carried it, here is
one symptom that may teach us.

In the year 1330, one Werner von Orseln was Grand-master of these
Ritters. The Grand-master, who is still usually the best man they
can get, and who by theory is sacred to them as a Grand-Lama or
Pope among Cardinal-Lamas, or as an Abbot to his Monks,--Grand-
master Werner, we say, had lain down in Marienburg one afternoon
of this year 1330, to take his siesta, and was dreaming peaceably
after a moderate repast, when a certain devil-ridden mortal,