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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. II. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER XIV
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The hapless royal ex-imperial Phantasm self-broken in this manner.

[30th July, 1419 (Hormayr, vii.
119).] Poor soul, he came to the Kaisership too early; was a thin violent creature, sensible to the charms and horrors of created objects; and had terrible rhinoceros Ziscas and unruly horned-cattle to drive.

He was one of the worst Kaisers ever known,--could have done Opera-singing much better;--and a sad sight to Bohemia.

Let us leave him there: he was never actual Elector of Brandenburg, having given it up in time; never did any ill to that poor Country.
SIGISMUND IS KURFURST OF BRANDENBURG, BUT IS KING OF HUNGARY ALSO.
The real Kurfurst of Brandenburg all this while was Sigismund Wenzel's next Brother, under tutelage of Cousin Jobst or otherwise;--real and yet imaginary, for he never himself governed, but always had Jobst of Mahren or some other in his place there.

Sigismund, as above said, was to have married a Daughter of Burggraf Friedrich V.; and he was himself, as was the young lady, well inclined to this arrangement.


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