[146]: Schickaneder was the Director of a Theatre in Vienna in the time of Mozart, and wrote the text for the Magic Flute.—Tr.
[147]: A wreath given in derision to brides who before marriage had been unchaste.—Tr.
[148]: And then are ready to verify the proverb: Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.—Tr.
[149]: Musical interval.—Tr.
[150]: Old scholastic term for a past eternity, in contradiction to a coming eternity, a parte post.—Tr.
[151]: The Invisible Lodge; a Biography in Two Parts. [A work of Jean Paul's.—Tr.]
[152]: Such was the name of his Lordship's wife, who in her twenty-third year sank to rest in the eternal arms.
[153]: In the original, Semper-freie (always free,—eligible to office).—Tr.
[154]: Hence too it was, that, so long as Victor was at the Parsonage, she avoided Flamin's society.
[155]: The reader will remember this same remark, in so many words, on p. 223.—Tr.