Note 277 — Chapter XIV · THE GERMANIC CONSTITUTION: THE SEVEN ELECTORS.
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Goethe, whose imagination was wonderfully attracted by the splendours of the old Empire, has given in the second part of Faust a sort of fancy sketch of the origin of the great offices and the territorial independence of the German princes. Two lines express concisely the fiscal rights granted by the Emperor to the electors:—
'Dann Steuer Zins und Beed, Lehn und Geleit und Zoll, Berg-, Salz- und Münz-regal euch angehören soll.'