And zealously did refuse it, though to his cost, poor man.

From the Reich, for all its big talking, he got no manner of assistance; had to stave off a Polish War as he could, by fair-speaking, by diplomacies and contrivances; and died at middle age, worn down by the sorrows of that sad position.
An idea prevails, in ill-informed circles, that our new Grand-Master Albert was no better than a kind of cheat; that he took this Grand-Mastership of Preussen; and then, in gayety of heart, surreptitiously pocketed Preussen for his own behoof.

Which is an idle idea; inconsistent with the least inquiry, or real knowledge how the matter stood.

[Voigt, ix.

740-749; Pauli, iv.