&4-8 OLYMPIC DIALOGUE. 



Venus. ~\ They will be very well off. 



Jupiter^ Of this we will fpeak when occafion re- 

 quires. And now — not a word more de odiofis ! — A 

 frefh goblet, Antinous ! 



,PUKE OP ALVA AT A BREAKFAST, IN THE CASTLE 

 OP RUDOLSTADTj IN THE YEAR I<47- 



TURNING over an ancient chronicle of the 

 lixteenth century, under the title of Res in Ecclefia et 

 politica chriftiana gefta ab anno 1500, ad ann. 1600, 

 autore J. Soffing, theolog. dodl. Rudolf!. 1676. I 

 found the following anecdote, which for more than 

 one reafon deferves to be fnatched from oblivion. In 

 & piece, under the name of, Maufolea manibus Met- 

 zeiii pofita a Fr. Mekh. Dedekindo, 173?. I find it 

 confirmed : and for this the reader is referred to Span- 

 genberg's mirror of nobility, vol. I. book xiii. p. 445. 



A German lady, defcended of a family long re- 

 nowned for valiant feats of arms, and which had al- 

 ready given an emperor to Germany, on a particular 

 occafion made the formidable duke of Alva tremble 

 by her bold and refolute conduct. As the emperor 

 Charles the Fifth, on his return, in the year 1 547, 

 from the battle of Muhlberg, to his camp in Suabia, 

 paffed through Thuringia, Catharina, countefs dowager 

 pf Schwartzburg, born princefs of Henneberg, ob- 

 tained of him a letter of fafe-guard, that her fubjedls 

 .might have fipthing to fuffer from the Spaniih army 

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