Note 907 — KNITTING NETS AND STOCKINGS. STOCKING-LOOM.
William Johnston translation
Buch des Alten Pommerlandes, 1639, 4to, p. 388:—“Duke Bogislaus VIII. suffered himself at length to be overcome by love, and married Sophia, daughter of Procopius margrave of Moravia, who was a very prudent and moderate lady. In her old age, when her sight became bad, so that she was incapable of sewing or embroidering, she never put the knitting-needle out of her hands, as is written in our chronicles. The rhymes which she always had in her mouth are remarkable:—
Nicht beten, gern spatzieren gehn, Oft im Fenster und vorm Spiegel stehn, Viel geredet, und wenig gethan, Mein Kind, da ist nichts Fettes an.
‘Never to pray; to be fond of walking; to stand often at the window and before the looking-glass; to talk much and do little; is not, my child, the way to be rich.’”