Was God's good gift too poor for the Honourables with the gold chains?
Now, even fragile little Dr.Eberbach, and the students and Bacchantes who had stood around him like disciples, intently listening to his words, bowed respectfully.

The ungodly, insolent fellows who surrounded the Dominican Jacobus, the vender of indulgences, had turned from him, while he exhorted them, as if he were an importunate beggar.

What did the merchants, artisans, and musicians know about the godless Greek and Latin writings which brought the names of Pirckheimer and Peutinger before the people, yet how reverently many of these folk now bowed before them.

Only the soldiers with swords at their sides held their heads erect.

They proved that they were right in calling themselves "pious lansquenets." The broad-shouldered knight, with the plumed hat and suit of mail, who walked beside them, was Sir Hans von Obernitz, the Schultheiss of Nuremberg.