LITTERATEUR AND BOOK-HUNTER
| 21. | He further said: “God will you show |
| Three signs that you may easily know | |
| And every man can see; | |
| My head cut off will lie awhile | |
| Then leap into my hat and smile.” | |
| 22. | “The second sign will be as clear |
| And on the sun itself appear. | |
| Now to the third give heed; | |
| The sun will be as red as blood, | |
| The Stadel Brun be a red flood.” | |
| 23. | The judge turned to the lords, indeed: |
| “Do you to these three signs give heed | |
| And see if they occur, | |
| If all of this should happen so | |
| Your souls may yet encounter woe.” | |
| 24. | The meal had now an end at last. |
| They wished to bind his two hands fast. | |
| The Haslibacher spoke: | |
| “I pray you Master Lorentz so | |
| You me permit unbound to go.” | |
| 25. | “Prepared and ready I can be, |
| My death in truth rejoices me, | |
| And I am full content; | |
| And God will mercy still bestow | |
| On those themselves who mercy show.” | |
| 26. | As he was to the scaffold led. |
| He took his hat from off his head, | |
| Right there before the crowd. | |
| “I pray you Master Lorentz that | |
| You let me here put down my hat.” | |
| 27. | Then down he fell upon his knee |
| And offered prayers up two or three, | |
| And longer yet he prayed. | |
| “What cause is mine the good God sees, | |
| Do with me now whate'er you please.” | |
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