Und rinklen[26] auf ain mort Das wort des ewigen leben Zů aufrůr und dem dot, Von Christo uns gegeben, 95 Das er auss lieb erbot. [Notes: 1: The _Bruder Veits Ton_, verse-form and tune, was a popular favorite. See Erk und Böhme’s _Liederhort_, II, 59. 2: _Iez_ = _jetzt_. 3: _Fürgon_ = _vorgehen_. 4: _Täten ... tat_ = _würden zur Tat schreiten_, ‘would do something.’ 5: _Sein_ = _sind_. 6: _Verjagen_ = _beseitigt_, ‘done away with.’ 7: _Me_ = _mehr_. 8: _Aufdrait_ = _aufträgt_, ‘wears.’ 9: _Erstift_, ‘established’; see Mat. xvi, 18. 10: _Undertäni_, an abstract from _Untertan_, in the collective sense of _Untertanenschaft_. 11: _Brachtet_, from _brachten_ = _schreien, toben_. The sense is: ‘Where subjects revolt and rulers are powerless.’ 12: _Gemain_ = _sämtlich_. 13: _Gmain_ = _Gemeinde_. 14: _Der_, in the sing., as if _der minste_ had preceded. 15: _Zierd_, the church. 16: _Gent steur_ = _geben Steuer_, ‘help on,’ ‘aid.’ 17: _Nim_ = _nimmer (nie mehr)_. 18: _Fünf_, namely, confirmation, penance, extreme unction, order, and matrimony. 19: _Andern_, namely, baptism and the eucharist. 20: _Geschent_ = _geschändet_, ‘treated disgracefully.’ 21: _Für erlogen_ = _vorgelogen_. 22: _Biegen_, with _kan_ above; ‘whoso can bend the gospel to murder,’ etc. 23: _Hanthabt_, ‘invests’ (puts into his hands). 24: _Meit_, ‘mite.’ 25: _Frone_ = _heilig_. 26: _Rinklen_, ‘twist,’ ‘pervert,’--like the preceding _vertragen_.] +XLIII. THE REFORMATION DRAMA+ The spirit of Luther--opposition to the papacy and reliance on scripture--soon found expression in the acted drama. To illustrate this phase of the new literary movement three plays have been drawn on: first, a Swiss play, performed on the streets of Bern in 1522; second, a Low German play, performed at Riga in 1527; third, a midland play, performed at Kahla in 1535. The text of No. 1 follows Bächtold’s _Bibliothek älterer Schriftwerke der deutschen Schweiz_, II, 103; for No. 2 see Braune’s _Neudrucke_, No. 30; for No. 3, Tittmann’s _Schauspiele aus dem 16. Jahrhundert_, pages 21 ff. 1 _From the ‘Contrast between the Pope and Christ,’ by Niklaus Manuel._[1] CLÄIWE PFLŮG