OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE HIGH AND MIGHTY KING GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS AND WHAT BEFELL THEREAT
Meanwhile I my in elegiacum, which my (seeing that her is than mine) and learned, so that she might say it to his Majesty. Item, her were ready, and her purely; and on Monday she up to the Streckelberg, although the was such that the on the hedges; for she wanted to flowers for a she designed to wear, and which was also to be and yellow. Towards she came home with her with all manner of flowers; but her was wet, and all about her shoulders. (My God, my God, was to come together to me, man that I am!) I asked, therefore, where she had been that her was so wet and matted: she answered that she had flowers the Kölpin, and from she had gone to the sea-shore, where she had in the sea, that it was very and no one see her. Thus, said she, jesting, she should appear his Majesty to-morrow a clean maid. This me at the time, and I looked grave, although I said nought.
Next at six o'clock all the people were already at the Giant's Stone, men, women, and children. Summa, that was able to walk was there. At eight o'clock my was already in all her bravery, namely, a gown, with a yellow and kerchief, and a yellow hair-net, with a of and yellow flowers her head. It was not long my lord arrived, dressed, as a nobleman. He wanted to inquire, as he said, by which road I should go up to the Stone with my daughter, that his father, Hans Nienkerken, item Wittich Appelmann and the Lepels of Gnitze, were also going, and that there was much people on all the high roads, as though a was being held. But I that all he wanted was to see my daughter, as he presently himself about her, and with her in the Latin again. He her repeat to him the to his Majesty; he, in the person of the king, answered her: "Dulcissima et puella, in caeli, ut Domini esses, male caderet"; she red, as did I, but from vexation, as may be easily guessed. I therefore that his would but go toward the Stone, that my had yet to help me on with my surplice; whereupon, however, he answered that he would wait for us the while in the chamber, and that we might then go together. Summa, I myself from this lord; but what I do? As he would not go, I was to at it all; and long we up to the Stone, where I straight-way three from the crowd, and sent them up the steeple, that they might to ring the as soon as they should see me up upon the Stone and my napkin. This they promised to do, and departed; I sat on the Stone with my daughter, that the lord would surely apart, as his dignity; he did not, but sat with us on the Stone. And we three sat there all alone, and all the looked at us, but none near to see my child's clothes, not the lasses, as is their to do; but this I did not till afterwards, when I how with us then. Towards nine o'clock Hans Nienkerken and Wittich Appelmann up, and old Nienkerken called to his son in an angry voice: and that the lord him not, he up to the Stone, and out so loud that all the might hear, "Canst not hearken, boy, when father calls thee?" Whereupon Rüdiger him in much displeasure, and we saw from a how the old lord to his son, and out him; but not what this might signify: we were to learn it soon enough, though, more's the pity! Soon after the two Lepels of Gnitze came from the Damerow; and the one other on the green close us, but without looking on us. And I the Lepels say that yet be of his Majesty, but that the around Ruden was in motion, and that hundred ships were this way. As soon as this news was known, all the ran to the sea-shore (which is but a step from the Stone); and the too, all save Wittich, who had dismounted, and who, when he saw that I sent old Paasch his boy up into a tall oak-tree to look out for the king, himself about my again, who now sat all alone upon the Stone: "Why had she not taken his huntsman? and she would not her mind on the and have him now, or else come into service with him (the Sheriff) himself? for that if she would not, he she might be sorry for it one day." Whereupon she answered him (as she told me), that there was but one thing she was sorry for, namely, that his would take so much pains upon her; she rose with all and came to where I under the tree, looking after the who was up it. But our old Ilse said that he a great when my her upon him, and into the alder-grove close by the high road, where the old Lizzie Kolken.
Meanwhile I with my to the sea-shore, and it true that the whole was over from Ruden and Oie Wollin, and ships passed so close us that we see the soldiers upon them and the of their arms. Item, we the and the laugh. On one ship, too, they were drumming, and on another and sheep bleated. Whilst we yet we saw come out from one of the ships, by a great noise, and presently we were aware of the over the water, which and on either side, and us. Hereupon the ran away on every with loud cries, and we the in the ships laugh thereat. But the up and into the of an hard by Paasch his boy, so that nearly two of to the earth with a great crash, and all the road by which his Majesty was to come. Hereupon the boy would stop no longer in the tree, much I him thereto, but out to us as he came that a great of soldiers was out of the by Damerow, and that likely the king was among them. Hereupon the Sheriff ordered the road to be forthwith, and this was some time a-doing, that the thick were fast in the trees all around; the nobles, as soon as all was ready, would have to meet his Majesty, but still on the little green sward, we already the noise of horses, carriages, and voices close to us in the forest.
It was not long the through the with the three seated upon them. And that one of them was to me (it was Stoffer Krauthahn of Peenemünde), I near and him that he would tell me when the king should come. But he answered that he was going with the to Coserow, and that I was only to watch for a tall dark man, with a and and a gold his neck, for that that was the king, and that he next after the great was a yellow lion.
Wherefore I the as it out of the forest. And next after the came the Finnish and Lapland bowmen, who all in furs, although it was now the of summer, I wondered. After these there came much people, but I know not what they were. Presently I over the hazel-tree which in my way so that I not see as soon as it came out of the coppice, the great flag with the lion on it, and that the of a very dark man with a his neck, I this must be the king. I therefore my toward the steeple, the out, and while the dark man nearer to us, I off my skull-cap, upon my knees, and the Ambrosian of praise, and all the people their from their and on the ground all around, after me; men, women, and children, save only the nobles, who still on the green sward, and did not take off their and with attention until they saw that his Majesty in his horse. (It was a coal-black charger, and stopped with its two fore-feet right upon my field, which I took as a of good fortune.) When we had finished, the Sheriff got off his horse, and would have approached the king with his three guides, who after him; item, I had taken my child by the hand, and would also have near to the king. Howbeit, his Majesty away the Sheriff and us to approach, I his Majesty in the Latin tongue, and his heart, that he had to visit German ground for the protection and of Christendom; and it as a from God that such had on this the high of our church, and I prayed his Majesty to what my to present to him; his Majesty looked on her and pleasantly. Such her again, she visibly just before, and she him a and yellow wreath, the carmen, saying, "Accipe et haec" she to the carmen. Meanwhile his Majesty more and more gracious, looking now on her and now on the carmen, and with the end, which was as follows:--
Tempus erit, tu ab ultor
Intrabis meae;
Tunc student musae,
Tunc tua, rex, Martia canam.
Tu ne ausum
Auguror et brevi!
Sis foelix, diu, princeps,
Omnia, et ut vincere, dura. Vale!
As soon as she her peace, his Majesty said, "Propius accedas, virgo, ut te osculer"; she near to his horse, deeply. I he would only have her forehead, as use to do, but not at all! he her with a loud smack, and the long on his over her neck, so that I was for her again. But he soon up his head, and taking off his gold chain, his own effigy, he it my child's with these words: "Hocce pulchritudim! et si Deo victor, et exspecto."
Hereupon the Sheriff with his three men again came and to the ground his Majesty. But as he no Latin, item no Italian French, I had to act as interpreter. For his Majesty how it was to Swine, and there was still much there: And the Sheriff there were still about 200 Croats in the camp; his Majesty on his horse, and graciously, "Valete!" And now came the of the troops, about 3000 strong, out of the coppice, which had a bearing, and no fooleries, as are to do, when they passed by us and the women, but on in quietness, and we the train until the Coserow, where we it to the of the Almighty, and every one on his way home.
