[Footnote 5]: In the Graffschaft Mark.
[Footnote 6]: Play on the grandiloquent words of Kotzebue.
[Footnote 7]: About a pint.
[Footnote 8]: Probably to prevent Kotzebue's retreat.
[Footnote 9]: No person in Germany can fill any office in a state, not even that of a postmaster, or captain of police, nor follow any of the high professions, those of law, divinity, and physic, after he has passed his college examinations, and taken his degree, without having undergone another examination before a board expressly appointed by each state.
[Footnote 10]: The founder of the Orphan-House.
[Footnote 11]: The established word for shirt-collar in Germany is the very odd one of Vater-mörder, literally "Father-killers;" and they are said to have acquired this name from an anecdote manufactured on their first introduction, in order to ridicule their extravagant size and stiffness, as worn by buckish young men. It was said that so large and stiffly-starched had a young student his collar, that when he went home, in rushing to embrace his father, he run him through the neck with the point of it, and killed him on the spot.
[Footnote 12]: This word, to suit the air, must be pronounced postilyòn, with a strong accent on the last syllable.
[Footnote 13]: Cicero, humorously here thus pronounced, because a party among the classics insist that it was anciently so pronounced.
[Footnote 14]: Labours hard, like an ox.