She did it faithfully, to the infinite merriment of the festive group.
So far as we can now judge, and making due allowance for the darkness of the age in which he lived, Rhodolph appears to have been, in the latter part of his life, a sincere, if not an enlightened Christian.

He was devout in prayer, and punctual in attending the services of the Church.
The humble and faithful ministers of religion he esteemed and protected, while he was ever ready to chastise the insolence of those haughty prelates who disgraced their religious professions by arrogance and splendor.
At last the infirmities of age pressed heavily upon him.

When seventy-three years old, knowing that he could not have much longer to live, he assembled the congress of electors at Frankfort, and urged them to choose his then only surviving son Albert as his successor on the imperial throne.

The diet, however, refused to choose a successor until after the death of the emperor.

Rhodolph was bitterly disappointed, for he understood this postponement as a positive refusal to gratify him in this respect.