Hingegen wölle der Geist jhme, Fausto, etliche Jahr zum Ziel setzen,
wann solche verloffen, soll er von jhme geholt werden, Vnd so er solche
Puncten halten würde, soll er alles das haben, was sein Hertz belüste
vnd begerte, vnnd soll er alsbaldt spüren, dass er eines Geistes
gestallt vnnd weise haben würde. D. Faustus war in seinem Stoltz vnnd
Hochmut so verwegen, ob er sich gleich ein weil besunne, dass er doch
seiner Seelen Seligkeit nicht bedencken wolte, sondern dem bösen Geist
solches darschluge, vnnd alle Artickel zuhalten verhiesse. Er meynet der
Teuffel wer nit so schwartz, als man jhn mahlet, noch die Hell so heiss,
wie mann davon sagte.
[Notes:
19: _Sein Datum stunde (stand)_, ‘his purpose was.’
20: _Gefliessen_, ‘assiduous.’]
+XLVII. JOHANN FISCHART+
1550-1590. Fischart was an Alsatian humorist of satiric bent, great
learning, and little originality. His prose--especially in _Gargantua_,
his most important work, which is an amplified and Germanized version of
the first book of Rabelais--is hard to read on account of its recondite
allusions, far-fetched puns, and generally eccentric diction. As a poet
he is at his best in the _Lucky Boat of Zürich_, a narrative poem which
describes, with much patriotic warmth, the notable feat of a Swiss
boat-crew in rowing from Zürich to Strassburg in a single day (June 21,
1576) to attend a _Schützenfest_. The selection follows Kürschner’s
_Nationalliteratur_, Vol. 18, page 141.
_From the ‘Lucky Boat of Zürich,’ lines 259-366._
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