Milton D. Baumgartner 



171/172. Nor let false friends 

 seduce thy mind to fame 



By arrogating Jonson's hostile 

 name; 



175. Thou art my blood, where 

 Jonson has no part; 



183. Promised a play and dwin- 

 dled to a farce? 



199/201. With whatever gall thou 

 setst thyself to write 



Thy inoffensive satires never 

 bite; 



In thy felonious heart though 



venom lies; 

 210/214. He said, but his last 



words were scarcely heard, 

 For Bruce and Longville had a trap 



prepared, 

 And down they sent the yet de- 

 claiming bard. 

 Sinking he left his drugget robe 



behind, 

 216/217. The mantel fell to the 



young prophet's part 

 With a double portion of his 



father's art. 



Was hat Euripides mit dir und mir 



zu schaffen, 

 211. Du bist mein Blutt, an dem 



hat dieser gar kein Theil. 

 254/255. Und weil er einst ent- 



fernt die Traur-Spiel von der 



Heerd, 

 So mach das die verkehrt zu einem 



Lust-Spiel werd'. 

 232/2:^3. Zeig, dass dein frevlend 



Hertz viel Gall und Gift 



umstricke 



Ob Taratantel gleich es gleich nur 



Lachen wircke ; 

 264/269. Er sagt', und hatte kaum 



das letzte Wort gesprochen, 

 Als V — 1 welchen hier den falsch 



Grund gebrochen, 

 Ihn taumelnd unter sich auf einem 



Fallbrett sandt' ; 

 Er sanck, und Hess' in Eil zu einem 



Unterpfand 

 Sein Schurtzfell Stelpo nach, worin 



er mit viel Segen 

 Verduppelt seine Kunst. 



But Wernicke did more than transform an English satire into 

 a genuine German satire. Through Hans Sachs he introduced a 

 direct personal Hterary criticism which since the time of Gottfried 

 von Strassburg, had not existed in Germany. Hans Sachs and 

 Postel represent two widely divergent extremes in poetic form. 

 At the one extreme stands Hans Sachs, the best representative 

 author of the deteriorated poetry of the sixteenth century " Meis- 

 tersanger " with its unpoetic " Knittelvers " ; at the other extreme 



s'' Herringman was a noted printer of that time. Formerly he was 

 Dryden's printer and Shadwell made him a journeyman of Herringman 

 in the satire against him. Globe edition, p. 147. Note. 



38 S was Spiering, Postel's printer. See Bodmer in Critische 



Schriften, p. 127, 1741. 



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