Note 1 — From Maler Müller’s ‘Golo and Genevieve,’ Act 3, Scene 4.3
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The ode, written in 1773, alludes to Goethe’s newly published Götz, in which there are some drastic comments on German legal procedure under the Code Justinian.
2. Allusion to Voltaire’s Henriade.
3. Teuthard—poetic name for a rugged Old German—is Fritz Hahn, a member of the Alliance.
4. Buben, ‘indulge in shameless vice.’
5. At Höchstädt in Bavaria the French were defeated in 1704 by the English and Germans.
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