found. Which they could not always do; neither was the justice
capable of being perfect always. A fearfully difficult function,
that of Friedrich Redbeard. But an inexorably indispensable one
in this world;--though sometimes dispensed with (to the huge joy
of Anarchy, which sings Hallelujah through all its Newspapers)
for a season!

Kaiser Friedrich had immense difficulties with his Popes, with his
Milanese, and the like;--besieged Milan six times over, among
other anarchies;--had indeed a heavy-laden hard time of it, his
task being great and the greatest. He made Gebhardus, the anarchic
Governor of Milan, "lie chained under his table, like a dog, for
three days." For the man was in earnest, in that earnest time:--
and let us say, they are but paltry sham-men who are not so, in
any time; paltry, and far worse than paltry, however high their
plumes may be. Of whom the sick world (Anarchy, both vocal and
silent, having now swoln rather high) is everywhere getting
weary.--Gebhardus, the anarchic Governor, lay three days under the
Kaiser's table; as it would be well if every anarchic Governor, of
the soft type and of the hard, were made to do on occasion; asking
himself, in terrible earnest, "Am I a dog, then; alas, am not I a
dog?" Those were serious old times.

On the other hand, Kaiser Friedrich had his Tourneys, his gleams
of bright joyances now and then; one great gathering of all the
chivalries at Mainz, which lasted for three weeks long, the
grandest Tourney ever seen in this world. Gelnhausen, in the
Wetterau (ruin still worth seeing, on its Island in the Kinzig
river), is understood to have been one of his Houses;
Kaiserslautern (Kaiser's LIMPID, from its clear spring-water) in