Bartholomew Sastrow: Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster

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Bartholomäus Sastrow. Bartholomew Sastrow: Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster

Bartholomew Sastrow: Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster

Table of Contents

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INTRODUCTION

PART I

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

PART II

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

PART III

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

THE END

INDEX

FOOTNOTES:

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Bartholomäus Sastrow

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Some time after that, three students from Wittemberg, young fellows of good family, stopped for a short while in our town, and Christian Smiterlow asked his father, the burgomaster, to let them stay with him. The burgomaster, who had three grown-up daughters, invited my sister Catherine. Naturally, the young people talked to and chaffed each other, and the lads themselves made some remarks in Latin, which would, perhaps, have not sounded well in German to female ears. One of them happened to exclaim: "Profecto formosa puella!" "Sic satis!" retorted Catherine, and thereupon the students became afraid that she had understood the whole of their lively comments.

In 1544 Catherine married Christopher Meyer, an only son, but an illiterate, dissipated, lazy and drunken oaf, who spent all his substance, and ruined a servant girl while my sister was in childbed. God punished him for his misdeeds by bringing abject misery and a loathsome disease upon him, but Catherine died at twenty-six, weary of life.

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