[Footnote V-37: Durer’s Journal of his Travels is given by Von Murr, 7er Theil, S. 55-98. The title which the Editor has prefixed to it is, “Reisejournal Albrecht Dürer’s von seiner Niederländischen Reise, 1520 und 1521. E. Bibliotheca Ebneriana.” In the same volume, Von Murr gives some specimens of Durer’s poetry. The first couplet which he made in 1509 is as follows: “Du aller Engel Spiegel und Erlöser der Welt, Deine grosse Marter sey für mein Sünd ein Widergelt.” Thou mirror of all Angels and Redeemer of mankind, Through thy martyrdom, for all my sins may I a ransom find. This couplet being ridiculed by Bilibald Pirkheimer, who said that rhyming verses ought not to consist of more than eight syllables, Durer wrote several others in a shorter measure, but with no better success; for he says at the conclusion, that they did not please the learned counsellor. With Durer’s rhymes there is an epistle in verse from his friend Lazarus Sprengel, written to dissuade him from attempting to become a poet. Durer’s verses want “the right butter-woman’s trot to market,” and are sadly deficient in rhythm when compared with the more regular clink of his friend’s.] Durer proceeded from Nuremberg direct to Bamberg, where he presented to the bishop a painting of the Virgin, with a copy of the Apocalypse and the Life of the Virgin engraved on wood. The bishop invited Durer to his table, and gave him a letter exempting his goods from toll, with three others which were, most likely, letters of recommendation to persons of influence in the Netherlands.[V-38] From Bamberg, Durer proceeded by way of Eltman, Sweinfurth, and Frankfort to Mentz, and from the latter city down the Rhine to Cologne. In this part of his journey he seems to have met with little which he deemed worthy of remark: at Sweinfurth Dr. Rebart made him a present of some wine; at Mentz, Peter Goldsmith’s landlady presented him with two flasks of the same liquor; and when Veit Varnbuler invited him to dinner there, the tavern-keeper would not receive any payment, but insisted on being Durer’s host himself. At Lohnstein, on the Rhine, between Boppart and Coblentz, the toll-collector, who was well acquainted with Durer’s wife, presented him with a can of wine, and expressed himself extremely glad to see him. [Footnote V-38: Subsequently, Durer mentions having delivered to the Margrave John, at Brussels, a letter of recommendation [Fürderbrief] from the Bishop of Bamberg.]