Note 1 — From the ‘French Guest,’ Book 3: Life’s compensations; riches and poverty.

The original, in the Middle Low German of Mecklenburg (Redentin is a village near Wismar) is printed in Kürschner’s Deutsche Nationalliteratur, Vol. 14. —Upon coming to life in the tomb and escaping the guards stationed by Pilate, Christ descends into hell to release the ‘fathers.’ Lucifer’s first speech—he is the over-lord of hell and Satan his first lieutenant—is addressed to the devils in view of the rumored approach of the King of Glory.

2. The original is printed in the Fundgruben of Hoffmann von Fallersleben, 1837. The ‘Personen’ are the three Marys, who go at break of day to anoint the body of the buried Christ. On the way they are taken in by a peripatetic quacksalver who has a cantankerous wife and a scapegrace clerk named Rubin.