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And to this association, which in after years gave him a famous banquet, Holbein, we know, belonged later on, if not now. Every day would take him to the Fischmarkt, the great square humming with activity, crowded with inns, public-houses, shops, booths, dwelling-houses, the trade mart of every nationality.
Holbein's only rival, if he could be called such, in work of this sort was the talented goldsmith, Urs Graf, who, as an exceedingly loose fish, lived most appropriately in the Fischmarkt in his own house near the old Birsig Bridge, when he was not in the lock-up for one or another of his constant brawls and scandals.
This Blume, not to be confused with later inns of the same name, shared with its no less famous contemporary, "The Stork," in the Fischmarkt, the special patronage of the chief printers.
That event had uprooted the scholar from the old house zum Sessel, in the Fischmarkt, and transplanted him to the home of Froben's son, Hieronymus. The latter house, then known as zum Luft, is now No. 18, Bäumleingasse. And it was here that Erasmus passed away, his mind keeping to the last its humour and its interests in all around him.
Paul's Cross that no heretic or heretical doctrine would be tolerated amongst them. Here, then, in this staunch citadel of his own faith, Holbein naturally found a new circle of friends among whom it must have been strangely easy to fancy himself back in the Fischmarkt of his young years, with Froben and Erasmus and Amerbach and Meyer zum Hasen.
The Rhine, the gardens, the clang of the press, the Fischmarkt, the friendly smiles at Froben's and Meyer's firesides; his marriage; the stars and dews and perfume of all his dreams in the years those matchless years of a man's young manhood when he had walked with angels as well as peasants, had seen the Way of the Cross, the Christ in the Grave, and the Risen Lord even more clearly than the faces of flesh and blood.
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