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216; Buddaei LEXICON, i.
853.]--who, what was still worse, would by no means give up the Town when he had done with it; Town being handy to him, and the man being stout and violently Papist.
Hence the "Evangelical Union" which we saw,--which has not taken Donauworth yet.
Nor ever will! Donauworth never was retaken; but is Bavarian at this hour, A Town namable in History ever since.
Not to say withal, that it is where Marlborough, did "the Lines of Schellenberg" long after: Schellenberg ("Jingle-Hill," so to render it) looks down across the Danube or Donau River, upon Donauworth,--its "Lines," and other histories, now much abolished, and quiet under grass. But now all Protestantism sounding everywhere, in angry mournful tone, "Donauwarth! Give up Donauworth!"-- and an "Evangelical Union," with moneys, with theoretic contingents of force, being on foot for that and the like objects;--we can fancy what a scramble this of Cleve-Julich was like to be; and especially what effect this duelling attitude of Brandenburg and Neuburg had on the Protestant mind.
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