 go to
bed at all.
    The dean of Strasburg, the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars
(capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of butter'd buns) all
wished they had followed the nuns of saint Ursula's example. -- In the hurry and
confusion every thing had been in the night before, the bakers had all forgot to
lay their leaven - there were no butter'd buns to be had for breakfast in all
Strasburg - the whole close of the cathedral was in one eternal commotion - such
a cause of restlessness and disquietude, and such a zealous inquiry into the
cause of that restlessness, had never happened in Strasburg, since Martin
Luther, with his doctrines, had turned the city up-side down.
    If the stranger's nose took this liberty of thrusting itself thus into the
dishes10 of religious orders, etc. what a carnival did his nose make of it, in
those of the laity! - 'tis more than my pen, worn to the stump as it is, has
powers to describe; tho' I acknowledge, (cries Slawkenbergius, with more gaiety
of thought than I could have expected from him) that there is many a good simile
now subsisting in the world which might give my countrymen some idea of it; but
at the close of such a folio as this, wrote for their sakes, and in which I have
spent the greatest part of my life - tho' I own to them the simile is in being,
yet would it not be unreasonable in them to expect I should have either time or
inclination to search for it? Let it suffice to say, that the riot and disorder
it occasioned in the Strasburgers fantacies was so general - such an
overpowering mastership had it got of all the faculties of the Strasburgers
minds - so many strange things, with equal confidence on all sides, and with
equal eloquence in all places, were spoken and sworn to concerning it, that
turned the whole stream of all discourse and wonder towards it - every soul,
good and bad - rich and poor - learned and unlearned - doctor and student -
mistress and maid - gentle and simple - nun's flesh and woman's flesh in
Strasburg spent their time in hearing tidings about it - every eye in Strasburg
languished to see it -- every finger - every thumb in Strasburg burned to touch
it.
    Now what might add, if any thing may be thought necessary to add to so
vehement a desire - was this, that the centinel, the bandy-legg'd drummer, the
trumpeter, the trumpeter's
