CHAPTER XV. 

 RUDOLPH'S DREAM. 



"I asked Philosophy how I should 

 Have of her the thing I would ; 

 She answered me when I was able 

 To make the Water malliable; 

 Or else the way if I could finde 

 To mesure out a yard of Winde ; 

 Then shalt thou have thine own desire, 

 When thou can'st- weigh an ounce of Fire; 

 Unless that thou can'st doe these three, 

 Content thyself, thou get'st not me.*' 



ABBI BEZALEL LOEW the erudite philosopher, 

 like all his co-religionists, lived in the Ghetto of 

 Prague, but his house in "Broad Street" was dis- 

 tinguished above those of his neighbors by a lion 

 carved in stone placed over the doorway. This symbol of 

 his family name commemorated an incident that had caused 

 unending wonderment among the inhabitants of the Jew's 

 quarter, a visit from the occupant of the imperial throne of 

 Germany, who had condescended to penetrate the sombre 

 streets of the despised Ghetto and to enter the humble 

 dwelling of his Hebrew subject, in order to express in this 

 conspicuous way his admiration for the learning and the 

 virtue of the tenant. 



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