managed to get his too Protestant Cousin's Electorate of Saxony
into his hand, by luck of the game; the Moritz, too, from whom
Albert by and by got his last defeat, giving Moritz his death in
return. That was the finale of their comradeship. All things end,
and nothing ceases changing till it end.

He was by position originally on the Kaiser's side; had attained
great eminence, and done high feats of arms and generalship in his
service. But being a Protestant by creed, he changed after that
Schmalkaldic downfall (rout of Muhlberg, 24th April, 1547), which
brought Moritz an Electorate, and nearly cost Moritz's too
Protestant Cousin his life as well as lands. [Account of it in De
Wette, Lebensgeschichte der Herzoge zu Sachsen italic> (Weimar, 1770), pp. 32-35.] The victorious Kaiser growing
now very high in his ways, there arose complaints against him from
all sides, very loud from the Protestant side; and Moritz and
Albert took to arms, with loud manifestos and the other phenomena.

This was early in 1552, five years after Muhlberg Rout or Battle.
The there victorious Kaiser was now suddenly almost ruined; chased
like a partridge into the Innspruck Mountains,--could have been
caught, only Moritz would not; "had no cage to hold so big a
bird," he said. So the Treaty of Passau was made, and the Kaiser
came much down from his lofty ways. Famed TREATY OF PASSAU (22d
August, 1552), which was the finale of these broils, and hushed
them up for a Fourscore years to come. That was a memorable year
in German Reformation History.

Albert, meanwhile, had been busy in the interior of the country;
blazing aloft in Frankenland, his native quarter, with a success