[196]: Feder means, in German, both feather and pen, as plume and penna, in French and Latin, mean both feather and quill.—Tr.
[197]: In the original, Nummern-vogel (numbered bird). As to the 99 [i. e. per cent.] on Zeusel, see page 368.—Tr.
[198]: Literally: Ich mache Wind.—Tr.
[199]: Spies.—Tr.
[200]: Geographical writers.—Tr.
[201]: Patchwork,—a term applied also to poems plagiarized from all quarters.—Tr.
[202]: A cap worn by those who take up hives, to defend them against stings.—Tr.
[203]: The Lutheran and Reformed:—at the Diet of Augsburg, in 1555.—Tr.
[204]: And I here with pleasure hold out to the public hope of my own biography, wherewith, when I shall have lived out a few more indispensable chapters of it, I propose to present it under the title, Jean Paul's Acts of the Apostles, or his Actions, Experiences, and Opinions.
[205]: Or lithographic, only petro is used designedly with a moral reference.—Tr.