Preuss, i.

24.] They had Latin books, dictionaries, grammars on the table, all the contraband apparatus; busy with it there, like a pair of coiners taken in the fact.

Among other Books was a copy of the Golden Bull of Kaiser Karl IV.,--_Aurea Bulla,_ from the little golden BULLETS or pellets hung to it,--by which sublime Document, as perhaps we hinted long ago, certain so-called Fundamental Constitutions, or at least formalities and solemn practices, method of election, rule of precedence, and the like, of the Holy Roman Empire, had at last been settled on a sure footing, by that busy little Kaiser, some three hundred and fifty years before; a Document venerable almost next to the Bible in Friedrich Wilhelm's loyal eyes, "What is this; what are you venturing upon here ?" exclaims Paternal Vigilance, in an astonished dangerous tone.

_"Ihro Majestat, ich explicire dem Prinzen Auream Bullam,"_ exclaimed the trembling pedagogue: "Your Majesty, I am explaining AUREA BULLA [Golden Bull] to the Prince!"-- "Dog, I will Golden-Bull you!" said his Majesty, flourishing his rattan, _"Ich will dich, Schurke, be-auream-bullam!"_ which sent the terrified wretch off at the top of his speed, and ended the Latin for that time.

[Forster, i.
356.] Friedrich's Latin could never come to much, under these impediments.