Louis was indebted for this important victory to the skill of Schweppermann. After the battle the sole supply of the imperial table was found to consist of a basket of eggs, which the emperor distributed among his officers, saying, ‘To each of you one egg—to our gallant Schweppermann two.’—_Menzel._ Footnote 97: See Laguille, _Histoire d’Alsace_, liv. xxiii. p. 271. Footnote 98: Many passages in his _Heiligenleben_ are altogether in the spirit of Eckart, and have their origin, beyond question, in his sayings, or in those of his disciples.—See pp. 114, 125, 150, 187 (_Pfeiffer_), and also the extracts in Wackernagel, _Altd. Leseb._ p. 853. Footnote 99: See Schmidt’s Tauler, Appendix, p. 172, &c., where such information as can be obtained concerning Henry of Nördlingen is given. Footnote 100: Compare Petrarch’s account in his letters, cited by Gieseler: ‘Mitto stupra, raptus, incestus, adulteria, qui jam pontificalis lasciviæ ludi sunt: mitto raptarum viros, ne mutire audeant, non tantum avitis laribus, sed finibus patriis exturbatos, quæque contumeliarum gravissima est, et violatas conjuges et externo semine gravidas rursus accipere, et post partum reddere ad alternam satietatem abutentium coactos.’ Footnote 101: Laguille gives an account of this revolution, _Hist. d’Alsace_, p. 276. Footnote 102: Schmidt’s Tauler, p. 12. Footnote 103: Laguille, liv. xxiv. p. 280. Footnote 104: Schmidt, p. 22. Footnote 105: Tauler’s _Sermon on the Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity_ contains an exhortation to Christian love, remarkable for beauty and discrimination. Tauler’s _Predigten_, vol ii. p. 591 (Berlin, 1841). Footnote 106: Schmidt, p. 14:— ‘do soltent sü ouch fürbas singen oder aber us der statt springen.’ Footnote 107: Schmidt’s Tauler, _Anhang über die Gottesfreunde_. Footnote 108: Passages from two of these mystics, Heinrich von Löwen and Johannes von Sterngasse, are given among the _Sprüche Deutscher Mystiker_, in Wackernagel, p. 890. Footnote 109: See Tauler’s _Predigten_, vol. ii. p. 584; and also, concerning the charge of sectarianism, p. 595; and the services of the Friends of God, vol. i. pred. xxvi. p. 194; pred. xi. p. 85. Footnote 110: _Ibid._, vol. ii. pred. lxvi. p. 594. Footnote 111: The sermon referred to is that on the _Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity_, vol. ii. p. 598.