It is in this way that George's Uncle, Vladislaus, Albert's
daughter's son, is now King of Hungary and Bohemia: the last King
Vladislaus they had; and the last King but one, of any kind, as we
shall see anon. Vladislaus was heir of Poland too, could he have
managed to get it; but he gave up that to his brother, to various
younger brothers in succession; having his hands full with the
Hungarian and Bohemian difficulty. He was very fond of Nephew
George; well recognizing the ingenuous, wise and loyal nature of
the young man. He appointed George tutor of his poor son Ludwig;
whom he left at the early age of ten, in an evil world, and evil
position there. "Born without Skin," they say, that is, born in
the seventh month;--called Ludwig OHNE HAUT (Ludwig NO-Skin), on
that account. Born certainly, I can perceive, rather thin of skin;
and he would have needed one of a rhinoceros thickness!

George did his function honestly, and with success: Ludwig grew up
a gallant, airy, brisk young King, in spite of difficulties,
constitutional and other; got a Sister of the great Kaiser
Karl V. to wife;--determined (A.D. 1526) to have a stroke at the
Turk dragon; which, was coiling round his frontier, and spitting
fire at an intolerable rate. Ludwig, a fine young man of twenty,
marched away with much Hungarian chivalry, right for the Turk
(Summer 1526); George meanwhile going busily to Bohemia, and there
with all his strength levying troops for reinforcement. Ludwig
fought and fenced, for some time, with the Turk outskirts; came at
last to a furious general battle with the Turk (29th August,
1526), at a place called Mohacz, far east in the flats of the
Lower Donau; and was there tragically beaten and ended. Seeing the
Battle gone, and his chivalry all in flight, Ludwig too had to