Note 1 — From ‘Simplicissimus,’ Book I, Chapter 4: The hero’s childhood; brutal soldiers plunder his foster-father’s house and outrage the inmates.
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Friedrich I, who died in 1713.
2. Den Toten, i.e. den alten (Schriftstellern)
3. Lüsterndem, ‘wanton,’ ‘lubricious.’
4. Pickelscherz (Pickelhäringscherz), ‘clownish jokes.’
5. The Italian poet Marino, known for his sensuality and affectation, was in high favor with the later Silesians.
6. Brief, in allusion to the sensual Heldenbriefe of Hofmannswaldau.
7. Philomuschen, ‘poetaster’ (lover of the Muses).
8. Weisianer, partisans of the dull and trivial schoolmaster-poet, Christian Weise.
9. Hübneristen, mechanical rimesters; Hübner was the author of a dictionary of rimes.
10. Odermusen; ‘muses of the Oder’ and ‘tongues of the Sudeti’ are both names for the later Silesian poets.
11. Kunst der Pleisse, Leipzig’s art.
12. Wenn es brennte = wenn es drauf ankäme.
13. Dedekindens; C. C. Dedekind was a facile but vacuous rimester.