Ich waiss noch vil, 65 Wöln auch ins spil, Und soltens[38] drüber sterben: Auf, landsknecht gůt Und reuters můt, Last Hutten nit verderben! 70 [Notes: 18: The song was printed separately in 1521 as _Ain new lied herr Vlrichs von Hutten_. The phrase _ich habs gewagt_, translating the Latin _jacta est alea_, became a sort of motto with Hutten after he had taken, in the fall of 1520, the momentous step of defending Luther and advocating a German war of liberation. 19: _Mit sinnen_, ‘deliberately.’ 20: _Noch_ = _dennoch_. 21: _Spüren trew_, ‘perceive stedfastness,’ ‘see that I am faithful’ to the decision taken. 22: _Main_ = _meine_; ‘I intend the weal not of one only (myself), but of the whole fatherland.’ 23: _Pfaffenfeind_, as a term of reproach among the humanists, had a suggestion of flying at ignoble game. 24: _Liegen_ = _lügen_. 25: _Mir ... vil_, ‘many would have liked me better.’ 26: _Verjagt_; Hutten’s revolutionary writings led to a papal order that he be brought to Rome in chains. Banished on that account by his former friend, the Archbishop of Mainz, he took refuge in the castle of Franz von Sickingen at Ebernburg. 27: _Fleich_ = _fliehe_. 28: _Recht gelitten_, ‘submitted to trial.’ 29: _So_ = _aber_. 30: _Diser gleichen_ = _dergleichen_. 31: _Setz ich drauf_, ‘take my risk on it.’ 32: _Er_ = _Ehre_. 33: _Uff ainig mass_ = _irgendwie_. 34: _Ir selbs_ = _sich selbst_. 35: _Raten_ = _Rat schaffen_, ‘find means.’ 36: _Ergatten_ = _erholen_. 37: _Curtisanen_ = _Höflinge_. 38: _Soltens_ = _sollten sie_.] +XLII. THOMAS MURNER+ 1475-_ca._ 1536. An Alsatian friar of the Franciscan order, Murner traveled much and won great prestige as a scholar. His earliest German writings, the _Guild of Fools_ and the _Exorcism of Fools_, are metrical satires in the vein of Sebastian Brant. Though himself a sharp critic of clerical abuses, he could not brook the thought of a rupture with the Roman church. In the _Great Lutheran Fool_ he assailed Luther scurrilously. His verse is mostly prosaic and often coarse, but there is a certain elegiac warmth in his song of thirty-five stanzas on the _Downfall of the Christian Faith_, which was published in the early days of the Lutheran revolt. A part of it is given below, the text according to Kürschner’s _Nationalliteratur_, Vol. 17{1}, page 62. +Ain new Lied von dem undergang des Christlichen glaubens.+