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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. II. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER VI
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"Don't pay it!" said Conrad to the Abbot.

Abbot refused accordingly; but was put under ban by the Pope;--obliged to comply, and even to be "whipt thrice" before the money could be accepted.

Two whippings at Erfurt, from the Archbishop, there had been; and a third was just going on there, one morning, when Conrad, travelling that way, accidentally stept in to matins.

Conrad flames into a blazing whirlwind at the phenomenon disclosed.

"Whip my Abbot?
And he IS to pay, then,--Archbishop of Beelzebub ?"--and took the poor Archbishop by the rochets, and spun him hither and thither; nay was for cutting him in two, had hot friends hysterically busied themselves, and got the sword detained in its scabbard and the Archbishop away.


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