CONTENTS

Chapter I ON THE ROAD
Chapter II THE PURSUIT
Chapter III EARLY DAYS
Chapter IV OFF TO VIENNA
Chapter V SCHOOL DAYS
Chapter VI IN THE HOUSE OF KIMBERKER
Chapter VII THE TEST OF COURAGE
Chapter VIII IN DANGER OF DEATH
Chapter IX VOCATION
Chapter X THE RUNAWAY
Chapter XI AT DILLIGEN
Chapter XII THE ROAD TO ROME
Chapter XIII THE NOVICESHIP
Chapter XIV GOING HOME
Chapter XV AFTERMATH


FOR GREATER THINGS

CHAPTER I

ON THE ROAD

Mid-August in Vienna, the year 1567: when Shakespeare was still a
little boy; twenty years before Philip II fitted out the Spanish
Armada; forty years before the first English colony settled in
America. The sun had just well risen, the gates of Vienna had been