man. With one trick you were to assist him, but when he gave you
the goblet you played your own tricks, and he could make nothing
succeed. You would also be clever. Then he cast an evil eye upon
you, although he was still so friendly and submissive, because you
were a gentleman's child. Do you remember--no, you will certainly
have forgotten--how you once took the baits of the hooks off and
hung my wooden shoes on instead? Then I said in anger, and the
anger of man is never good, 'Can no one, then, tame this boy for
me? He was making downright fun of you to your own face,' said I to
the player. 'Do you not know some art by which you can tame this
wild-cat?' Then he laughed maliciously, but I thought no more of
the matter. The following day, however, he said, 'Now I have curbed
the lad! You should only see how tame he is become; and should he
ever again turn unruly, only ask him what word the German Heinrich
whispered in his ear, and you shall. Then see how quiet he will
become. He shall not mock this trick!' My heart was filled with
horror, but I thought afterward it really meant nothing. Ei! ei!
from the hour he was here you are no longer the same as formerly;
that springs from the magical word he whispered in your ear. You
cannot pronounce the word, he told me; but by it you have been
enchanted: this, and not book-learning, has worked the change. But
you shall be delivered! If you have faith, and that you must have,
you shall again become gay, and I, spite of the evil words which I
spoke, be able to sleep peacefully in my grave. If you will only
lay this upon your heart, now that the moon is in its wane, the
trouble will vanish out of your heart as the disk of the moon
decreases!" And saying this she drew out of her pocket a little
leather purse, opened it and took out a piece of folded paper. "In
this is a bit of the wood out of which our Saviour's cross was
made. This will draw forth the sorrow from your heart, and bear it,