It has quadrupled itself, and more, within the last hundred years, and I think doubled itself within the last thirty.
MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW One Ascanier Markgraf, and one only, Otto IV.

by title, was a Poet withal; had an actual habit of doing verse.

There are certain so-called Poems of his, still extant, read by Dryasdust, with such enthusiasm as he can get up, in the old _Collection of Minne-singers,_ made by MANESSE the Zurich Burgermeister, while the matter was much fresher than it now is.

[Rudiger von Manesse, who fought the Austrians, too, made his _Sammlung_ (Collection) in the latter half of the fourteenth century; it was printed, after many narrow risks of destruction in the interim, in 1758,--Bodmer and Breitinger editing;--at Zurich, 2 vols.

4to.] Madrigals all; MINNE-Songs, describing the passion of love; how Otto felt under it,--well and also ill; with little peculiarity of symptom, as appears.