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Updated: June 17, 2025
I must creep to my bed; and in the meantime let me entreat you to persuade the priest not to torment me to-morrow morning." The Prince now left her, and forgetting all about the Lapland wizard whom he had left waiting in the courtyard, he rushed over the drawbridge, up the main street behind St. Peter's, and into the house of Dr. Gerschovius. The doctor was indignant at his petition.
Doctor Gerschovius, however, stayed behind with Sidonia, in order to exhort her to virtue; but as she only wept and did not seem to hear him, he grew tired, and finally went his way, also with many sighs and uplifting of his hands.
But it was all in vain; for the young Prince still continued day and night calling for Sidonia, and neither the Duchess nor Doctor Gerschovius could in any wise comfort him.
Howbeit, her Grace motioned to him not to heed her. So to his first question she replied rather snappishly, "You have your answer already." No wonder the priest grew black with rage. But seeing a book lying open on a little table beside her bed, and thinking it was the catechism of Dr. Gerschovius which she had been studying, he stepped over to look.
Gerschovius ran in, crying that some of the young profligates had broken all his windows the night before, and turned a goat into the rectory, with the catechism of his dear and learned brother tied round his neck. She paused when they entered, and began to weep. "Was it not all prophesied? Why had she been persuaded to throw off her mourning, and slight the memory of her loved Philip?
Then the cunning hypocrite lifted her kerchief to her eyes, and replied, "If I did not know the catechism of Doctor Gerschovius, yet I know God's Word, and how the Saviour said, 'I was sick and ye visited Me, and James also says, 'The prayer of faith shall save the sick. No, I will not let this poor young lord die, if my visit and my prayer can help him."
The Duchess promised this, and said, that Clara von Dewitz, another of her maidens, would be an excellent person to assist her in her studies, as she came from Daber also, and was familiar with the views and doctrines held by Dr. Gerschovius. This Clara we shall hear more of in our history.
"It was not her son's fault that base hypocrite had caused it all by some hell magic." Ille. "That was quite impossible; however, he would believe it to please her Grace." "Then let him speak his opinion, if the counsel of Dr. Gerschovius did not please him." Ille.
"Then I will threaten her with the Catechism of Doctor Gerschovius, which she must repeat on Sunday, for I know that she is greatly afraid of that and the clergyman." "And you think you will frighten her into giving up running after the young men?" "Oh yes, if I tell her that she will be publicly reprimanded unless she can say it perfectly."
How Sidonia rides upon the pet stag, and what evil consequences result therefrom. When the discourse had ended, her Grace retired to her apartment and Ulrich to his, for it was their custom, as I have said, to sleep after dinner. Doctor Gerschovius returned home, and the young Prince descended to the gardens with his lute.
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