The Legend of Ulenspiegel and LammeGoedzak
1922
London: William Heinemann
The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak
And their Adventures Heroical, Joyous, andGlorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere.
Book III
I
He goes away, the Silent One, God guideth him.
The two counts have been seized already; Alba promises the SilentOne lenity and pardon if he will present himself before him.
At this news, Ulenspiegel said to Lamme: “The Duke summons, atthe instance of Dubois, the procurator general, the Prince of Orange,Ludwig his brother, De Hoogstraeten, Van den Bergh, Culembourg, deBrederode, and other friends of the Prince’s, to appear beforehim within thrice fourteen days, promising them good justice and grace.Listen, Lamme, and hearken: One day a Jew of Amsterdam summoned one ofhis enemies to come down into the street; the summoner was on thepavement and the summoned at a window.
“‘Come down, then,’ said the summoner to thesummoned, ‘and I will give thee such a cuff on the head with myfist that it will tumble into thy breast, and thou shalt look throughthy ribs like a thief through the bars of his prison.’[2]
“The summoned replied: ‘Even if thou wast to promis