"Whom do you seek here, sir?" "Mynheer Wilhelm Hoffmeister, known commonly as 'Billy the fiddler.'

The King appears, according to Hoffmeister's probable conjectures, to have been either Frederic I. or Frederic II., of Sicily.

[Footnote 18: "Everywhere," says Hoffmeister truly, "Schiller exalts Ideal Belief over real wisdom;everywhere this modern Apostle of Christianity advocates that Ideal, which exists in Faith and emotion, against the wisdom of worldly intellect, the barren experience of life," etc.TRANSLATOR.