He proceeds to describe the prosperity of Lehnin under the race of Otto I., and its decay after the extinction of this family, which took place in the person of Henry III., 1320. These princes were from Anhalt, of the race called the Askanier in German history. At verses 14 _et seq._, he describes Brandenburg as becoming a den of lions, while the true heir is excluded. After Margrave Henry III., the Dukes of Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Brunswick, Anhalt, Electoral Saxony, and Bohemia attacked the Mark, (Brandenburg,) and committed horrible devastations. The Emperor Louis of Bavaria seized it for himself, excluding the princes of Saxony, the nearest heirs to the former princes. After various details concerning the fate of Brandenburg, plundered by robber knights and barons, who were to be put down by a strong emperor, as happened under Charles IV. who died in 1378,—he comes to the accession of the Hohenzollerns, and describes the first prince of that family as rising to distinction by holding two castles or Burgen. The Emperor Sigismund sold Brandenburg to Frederick, Burggraf of Nuremberg, of the house of Hohenzollern. He belonged to the lower nobility, but now became more important by the possession of two castles—those of Nuremberg and Brandenburg. These examples are sufficient to give an idea of that part of Brother Herrmann’s prophecy, concerning events which preceded the printing of it in 1723, and in which he describes _seriatim_, without giving the names, and very briefly, but in striking language, the fate and character of the successive Margraves, Electors, and Kings, till he comes to Frederick William I., who died in 1740, seventeen years after the prophecy was printed, and whose character and death he describes. Then follows Frederick the Great, whose career, with its vicissitudes, is indicated with tolerable clearness. One line is curious, 84. “Flantibus hinc Austris, vitam vult credere claustris.” “When the south wind blows, he trusts his life to the cloisters.” In fact, Frederick, when hard pressed by the Austrians, was once compelled to conceal himself in a monastery. _Auster_ signifies south wind, but is probably here used for Austria. After his successor, Frederick William II., whom the good monk truly describes as vicious, sensual, and oppressive, but not warlike, comes this line— 89. “Natus florebit; quod non sperasset habebit.” “The son shall flourish; he shall possess what he did not hope for.” The application of this to the late king, Frederick William III., is obvious. Under him, Prussia, after having been reduced to the lowest ebb by Napoleon, became, unexpectedly, far more powerful than it had ever been. 90. “Sed populus tristis flebit temporibus istis. 92. “Et princeps nescit quod nova potentia crescit.” “But the sad people shall mourn in these times; “And the King knows not that a new power is arising.” These lines also apply well to Frederick William III.