2: "The Princes grind in the Kaiser's mill: to the Reich they fling the siftings; and keep to themselves the meal.

Not much in haste, they, to give us a Kaiser." No.

3: "Like the Plague of Frogs, there they are come out; defiling the Reich's honor.

Stork, when wilt thou appear, then," and with thy stiff mandibles act upon them a little?
[Mentzel, _Geschichte der Deutschen,_ p.

345.] It was in such circumstances, that Friedrich III., Burggraf of Nurnberg, who had long moaned and striven over these woes of his country, came to pay that visit, late in the night (1st or 2d of October, 1273), to his Cousin Rudolf Lord of Hapsburg, under the walls of Basel; a notable scene in History.