[Notes: 62: Paul Rebhun, who died in 1546, was a Lutheran schoolmaster and pastor. In his _Susanna_ he essayed a more regular and varied versification than that of the ordinary _Knittelvers_. The apocryphal story of Susanna was in high favor with the Protestant playwrights on account of its vindication of a chaste wife. 63: _Ewig_ = _immer_. 64: _Meid_; the housemaid who had brought the news to Susanna’s mother. 65: _Sehen an_, ‘look on,’ ‘bring to light.’ 66: _In_ = _in den_. 67: _Guter ru_, ‘security’; ‘I thought I should be safe there.’ 68: _Namens ... für_, ‘they resorted to crime.’ 69: _Er_ = _Ehre_. 70: _Gsind_ = _Gesinde_, ‘servants.’ 71: Samri and Gorgias are _Hausknechte_ of Susanna’s husband. 72: _Potz_, a euphemism for _Gott_ in oaths: _dass Gott sie (verdamme)_. 73: _Her_; her husband, Joachim, is away on business. 74: _Schier_ = _bald_. 75: _Gegn ... stellt_ = _stellt sich ihnen entgegen_. 76: _Wert_ = _sich verteidigt_. 77: _Besticht_ = _verführt_. 78: _Wird er zerspalten_ = _kommt er in Zwiespalt mit sich selbst_ (Tittmann).] +XLIV. HANS SACHS+ 1494-1576. Sachs is the most winsome and versatile German poet of the 16th century. He lived at Nürnberg, practising the trade of the shoemaker and the art of the mastersinger, and writing an immense number of poetic productions. His total of verses has been estimated at half a million. For the reader of to-day he is most enjoyable in his _Schwänke_, or humorous tales, and his _Fastnachtspiele_, or shrovetide plays. The text of the first selection follows Keller’s reprint in the _Bibliothek des Literarischen Vereins in Stuttgart_, Vol. 106, page 109; that of the second, Goetze’s reprint in Braune’s _Neudrucke_, No. 40. +1+ +Sanct Peter mit der Gais.+