as Phantasm, being come.

Albert, I can conjecture, had his own difficulties as Regent in
Preussen. [1525-1568.] Protestant Theology, to make matters worse
for him, had split itself furiously into 'DOXIES; and there was
an OSIANDERISM (Osiander being the Duke's chaplain), much flamed
upon by the more orthodox ISM. "Foreigners," too, German-Anspach
and other, were ill seen by the native gentlemen; yet sometimes
got encouragement. One Funccius, a shining Nurnberg immigrant
there, son-in-law of Osiander, who from Theology got into
Politics, had at last (1564) to be beheaded,--old Duke Albert
himself "bitterly weeping" about him; for it was none of Albert's
doing. Probably his new allodial Ritter gentlemen were not the
most submiss, when made hereditary? We can only hope the Duke was
a Hohenzollern, and not quite unequal to his task in this respect.
A man with high bald brow; magnificent spade-beard; air much-
pondering, almost gaunt,--gaunt kind of eyes especially, and a
slight cast in them, which adds to his severity of aspect. He kept
his possession well, every inch of it; and left all safe at his
decease in 1568. His age was then near eighty. It was the tenth
year of our Elizabeth as Queen; invincible Armada not yet built;
but Alba very busy, cutting off high heads in Brabant;
and stirring up the Dutch to such fury as was needful for
exploding Spain and him.

This Duke Albert was a profoundly religious man, as all thoughtful
men then were. Much given to Theology, to Doctors of Divinity;
being eager to know God's Laws in this Universe, and wholesomely
certain of damnation if he should not follow them. Fond of the
profane Sciences too, especially of Astronomy: Erasmus Reinhold