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The magic of jewels and charms

Note 686 — X Facts and Fancies about Precious Stones

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Schiller’s “Werke,” ed. by R. Boxberger, vol. iv, Berlin and Stuttgart, n. d., pp. 179, 180, note; from a communication to the editor by Dr. R. Köhler of Weimar, in illustration of the following lines of Schiller’s “Don Karlos,” Act II, Sc. 8:

Dem grossen Kaufmann gleich

Der, ungerührt von des Rialto’s Gold,

Und Königen zum Schimpfe, seine Perle

Dem reichen Meere wiedergab, zu stoltz

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