Alas! for Linz’s fairest maiden!”
The moral seems to be that in affairs of the heart there is safety in one rather than in numbers.
Before leaving Linz it may be as well to recall a very clever acrostic which I am told Mr. H. R. Lewis wrote in a visitors’ book when visiting the town about a quarter of a century ago. It ran thus:—
“Mit ein-und-fünfzig fängt es an
Nach tausend Kommst das nächste;
Und, kennst Du wohl Dein alphabet
So findest Du das letzte.”
This may be roughly Englished as follows:—
“First one-and-fifty [LI], then the next
A thousand is just past [N];