though one had riſen from the dead. The tearful mother embraced her ſon with gladneſs that wore the face of grief. She made a great feaſt for her friends and relations, and diſtributed her whole ſtore of farthings among the poor. She could not ſatisfy her eyes with looking at the delicate ſhape of her future daughter-in-law, and had almoſt ſtifled her with careſſes, and ſtunned her with a profuſion of her well-intended babbling. The fair Greek became the talk of town and country. Knights and nobles and plebeian connoiſſeurs in female beauty, came in ſhoals, calling the happy Friedbert brother and couſin, and vowing him eternal regard and fellowſhip. He, however, feeling the jealous vein beat in his temples ſo hard as to produce a dizzineſs and head-ach, concealed his beautiful Calliſta from the eyes of all the world. He planted his watchful mother as a kind of duenna over her, whenever he rode out to pay his compliments to the lord of Gravenegg, whoſe vaſſal hewas.
