a fair and noble bride,—no leſs than the daughter of the Sultan of Egypt, with an immenſe dower. Fame, we well know, magnifies every thing. It was true that Friedbert, between the inheritance of Father Benno and his tooth-pick manufacture, had acquired ſo much wealth as enabled him to ſwell his pomp from place to place, as he journeyed onward. He bought palfreys and horſes of burthen, cloathed himſelf and the fair Calliſta with great magnificence, and proceeded with as high a carriage as if he had been Lord Ambaſſador to his Moſt Catholic Majeſty.
As ſoon as the train was ſeen moving along on the Augſpurg road, all the inhabitants aſſembled with great ſhouting and clapping of hands; Friedbert’s ſiſters and brothers-in-law, and the town-council in their robes, with the reverend bailiff at their head, went out to meet him, with colours flying: they moreover cauſed the drums to beat and the bells to ring for joy of their returning fellow citizen, asthough
