LANDRATH NUSSLER. "Of horses for ploughing the seedfields of rye to
sow them, and of bread till the crops come."

KING. "Rye for bread, and to sow with, I will give; with horses I
cannot assist."

NUSSLER. "On representation of Privy-Councillor van Brenkenhof [the
Minister concerned with such things], your Majesty has been pleased
to give the Neumark and Pommern an allowance of Artillery and
Commissariat Horses: but poor Nether-Barnim, nobody will speak for
it; and unless your Majesty's gracious self please to take pity on
it, Nether-Barnim is lost!" (A great many things more he said, in
presence of a large crowd of men who had gathered round the King's
Carriage as the horses were being changed; and spoke with such
force and frankness that the King was surprised, and asked:)--

KING. "Who are you?" (has forgotten the long-serviceable man!)

NUSSLER. "I am the Nussler who was lucky enough to manage the
Fixing of the Silesian Boundaries for your Majesty!"

KING. "JA, JA, now I know you again! Bring me all the Landraths of
the Kurmark [Mark of Brandenburg Proper, ELECTORAL Mark] in a body;
I will speak with them."

NUSSLER. "All of them but two are in Berlin already."

KING. "Send off estafettes for those two to come at once to Berlin;
and on Thursday," day after to-morrow, "come yourself, with all the
others, to the Schloss to me: I will then have some closer