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The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak Author:Charles de Coster General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: I paid seven gold florins for them. Thou shah have all and a demi-florin to boot, for I am not rich, it must not be imagined." And he would have gone on his knees before him. Ulenspiegel, seeing him so ugly, so trembling, and so cowardly and mean, flung him into the canal. And he went away. LXXXV On the doomfires smoked the fat of the victims. Ulenspiegel, thinking of Claes and Soetkin, wept in solitude. One night he went to find Katheline and ask her for a remedy and for vengeance. She was alone with Nele sewing beside the lamp. At the noise he made on coming within, Katheline dully lifted up her head like a woman awakened out of a heavy slumber. He said to her: "The ashes of Claes beat upon my breast; I would fain save the land of Flanders. I asked the Great God of heaven and earth, but He gave me no answer." Katheline said: "The Great God could not hear you: first you must address yourself to the spirits of the elemental world, which being of double nature, celestial and terrestrial, receive the complaints of poor humankind, and transmit them to the angels, which after bear them to the throne." "Help me," said he, "in my design; I will pay thee with my blood if need be." Replied Katheline: "I will help thee, if a girl that loveth thee wouldbring thee with her to the sabbath of the Spirits of the Springtide, which is the Easter of the Sap." "I will bring him," said Nele. Katheline poured into a crystal goblet a grayish coloured mixture of which she gave them both to drink; with this mixture she rubbed their temples, their nostrils, palms of the hand and wrists, made them swallow a pin...« less