The Adventurous Simplicissimus / being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

[Footnote 19]: Some 120 years before.

[Footnote 20]: Besieged by the Spaniards from 1601 to 1604.

[Footnote 21]: A kind of Eldorado.

[Footnote 22]: The famous cavalry commander of the Imperialists.

[Footnote 23]: The musqueteer supported his piece on a prop or stake.

[Footnote 24]: See chap. iii.

[Footnote 25]: viz. Lippstadt.

[Footnote 26]: The initials only of the name are given in the original.

[Footnote 27]: The pastor was 'Reformed' (i.e. Calvinist).

[Footnote 28]: I.e., at the Antipodes: "at the other end of the world."