[15th June, 1415.] Sigismund blushed; but could not conveniently mend the matter,--so many matters pressing on him just now.

As they perpetually did, and had done.

An always-hoping, never-resting, unsuccessful, vain and empty Kaiser.

Specious, speculative; given to eloquence, diplomacy, and the windy instead of the solid arts;--always short of money for one thing.

He roamed about, and talked eloquently;--aiming high, and generally missing:--how he went to conquer Hungary, and had to float down the Donau instead, with an attendant or two, in a most private manner, and take refuge with the Grand Turk: this we have seen, and this is a general emblem of him.