von Quitzow, are you prepared to live as a peaceable subject
henceforth: to do homage to the Laws and me?"--"Never!" answered
Quitzow, and pulled up his drawbridge. Whereupon Heavy Peg opened
upon him, Heavy Peg and other guns; and, in some eight-and-forty
hours, shook Quitzow's impregnable Friesack about his ears.
This was in the month of February, 1414, day not given: Friesack
was the name of the impregnable Castle (still discoverable in our
time); and it ought to be memorable and venerable to every
Prussian man. Burggraf Friedrich VI., not yet quite become
Kurfurst Friedrich I., but in a year's space to become so, he in
person was the beneficent operator; Heavy Peg, and steady Human
Insight, these were clearly the chief implements.

Quitzow being settled,--for the country is in military occupation
of Friedrich and his allies, and except in some stone castle a man
has no chance,--straightway Putlitz or another mutineer, with his
drawbridge up, was battered to pieces, and his drawbridge brought
slamming down. After this manner, in an incredibly short period,
mutiny was quenched; and it became apparent to Noble Lords, and to
all men, that here at length was a man come who would have the
Laws obeyed again, and could and would keep mutiny down.

Friedrich showed no cruelty; far the contrary. Your mutiny once
ended, and a little repented of, he is ready to be your gracious
Prince again: Fair-play and the social wine-cup, or inexorable war
and Lazy Peg, it is at your discretion which. Brandenburg
submitted; hardly ever rebelled more. Brandenburg, under the wise
Kurfurst it has got, begins in a small degree to be cosmic again,
or of the domain of the gods; ceases to be chaotic and a mere
cockpit of the devils. There is no doubt but this Friedrich also,