. Legends of the Rhine . and dwellings with the grain set asidefor seed time. Frederick then dryly remarked as he turned to his guests : Gentlemen, youll have to eat your meat without bread.Moreover, you must give me the necessary funds to rebuildthe houses and barns you have burned down, and to buythe seed for sowing. Henceforth, I advise you to rememberthat it is not right to make war against the poor and de-fenseless, and to rob the peasant of his tools and seed, hisonly means of subsistence. If you do so, you will invari-ably find, as to-day, that you too must suffer some discom-fort in re
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. Legends of the Rhine . and dwellings with the grain set asidefor seed time. Frederick then dryly remarked as he turned to his guests : Gentlemen, youll have to eat your meat without bread.Moreover, you must give me the necessary funds to rebuildthe houses and barns you have burned down, and to buythe seed for sowing. Henceforth, I advise you to rememberthat it is not right to make war against the poor and de-fenseless, and to rob the peasant of his tools and seed, hisonly means of subsistence. If you do so, you will invari-ably find, as to-day, that you too must suffer some discom-fort in return for all the harm you have done. This selfsame count of Heidelberg once made a rashvow that he would never marry a noblewoman, yet soonafter he fell deeply in love with Princess Elizabeth. Shereturned his affection, and would gladly have become hiswife, had he not felt that he could not ask for her hand inmarriage owing to his foolish oath. Frederick felt somiserable to think he had thus forfeited his own happiness, . ELIZABETH GATE.1 leidelberg Castle. HEIDELBERG. 279 and that of his beloved, that he joined the army, hopingsoon to find an honorable death. Elizabeth, discovering shortly after that nothing but herrank and his unfortunate vow prevented their being happy, left her princely home and title, and under the commonname of Clara, and in the garb of a strolling singer, cour-ageously followed him. They met face to face one beauti-ful evening when Frederick was wandering disconsolatelyabout, and the princess told her lover, in answer to his eagerinquiries, how she had renounced name and rank for hissake. The nominal barrier thus broken down between them, thecount was not slow in wooing the beautiful bride who hadforsaken home and station for him, and soon conducted herto the castle of Heidelberg, where they lived together formany years the happiest couple along all the Rhine. Dwarf anD tbe THE dwarf Perkeo, who was once court-fool of the countof Heidelberg, was, although